THE LEADERSHIP LEGACY

The Leadership Legacy is not a book about how to climb, perform, or accumulate influence for its own sake.

It is a book about transfer — how wisdom, competence, and character move from one person to another, and

what both sides of that relationship require to make it work.

I have written it in five parts, tracing the arc of a mentoring relationship from its foundations to its fruit: the

mentor’s responsibility, the mentee’s posture, the relationship that holds them together, the transformation

that relationship is meant to produce, and finally, the legacy it leaves behind. Along the way you will find

case studies, workplace examples, and — in the toolkit at the back — practical instruments to apply what

you read, not just admire it.

This book will ask something of you, whichever side of the relationship you currently stand on. If you are

a mentor, it will ask you to be interrupted by someone else’s growth. If you are a mentee, it will ask you to

be teachable in a culture that rewards looking like you already have it figured out. Both are harder than they

sound. Both are how leaders actually get made.

My hope is simple: that you close this book not more impressed by leadership, but more committed to

reproducing it.