Learn to lead amid disruption and distrust in a world where your authority carries less weight.

Disruptive forces have converged upon today's leaders and their employees: information and misinformation overload; AI rendering career plans and business strategies obsolete; social and generational shifts rewriting workplace dynamics; remote work atomizing workplace culture; increasing speed and complexity producing cognitive overload; economic uncertainty and income disparity driving mistrust and cynicism.

Leaders today work with employees who are fundamentally rewired in how they relate to work: burned out, deeply skeptical of authority, and resistant to traditional management approaches. The conventional leadership playbook--built for a different workforce in a different era--has lost its grip. The core challenge is learning to influence and engage without relying on positional power; to address real workplace cynicism, anxiety and productivity barriers rather than covering them over with old-school platitudes and directives.

The Unbearable Lightness of Leading provides leaders with practical strategies and skills. Learn to "matter deeply while holding authority loosely" as you:

• Rebuild influence and engagement when traditional authority no longer works
• Communicate and make decisions with cognitively overloaded employees
• Navigate AI opportunities and pitfalls to enhance Human+AI effectiveness
• Develop genuine connection and trust with skeptical employees
• Revitalize remote work when physical proximity and spontaneous connection aren't options
• Build an energizing culture of accountability and productivity in this new world

If you sense the ground getting softer beneath your feet--your authority growing lighter, your old playbook turning to dust--The Unbearable Lightness of Leading shows you how to lead through the maelstrom with depth, with clarity, with trust.