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"That's the most important question you've been asking so far," was Claude Fable's reply this morning during my editorial review of my upcoming book. Well, if you ask a strong AI for direct feedback, you'll get it. It's tough, but writing a book mainly means editing out what you don't need, what you've repeated too many times, and what's clear to you but not to anybody else. I'm slowly getting to a point where I really like the book. I've also received a few comments from 'test readers,' and so far it's encouraging. But it's also nerve-wracking... As much as I want to publish it, as much I must persevere through the painful editing and review process. Eventually, you will get a book that challenges and changes your perspective. Look forward to it. I do!

I have just booked the audio studio Sonic Nursery Sound Studios to record the audiobook version of my upcoming book (release date: Oct 13). I'll be recording for 2-3 days at the end of September, and I can't wait to get it to you! By the way: Have you taken our free assessment, which is part of the upcoming book? If not, do it now: https://lnkd.in/eYxWpsBn

On day three of a leadership program, one of the sharpest people in the room was standing alone in the corner, staring at the floor. David had everything on paper. International postings. Strong numbers. A title with real weight behind it. For two days he'd been fully engaged. So I walked over and asked what was wrong. "My boss has no idea I'm even here," he said. "He doesn't care how I develop. My last review was over a year ago, a checkbox so HR would leave him alone. He only talks to me when the KPIs slip. No impulses. No interest in anything I suggest." Then the line I still can't shake: "I'm learning here what leadership actually means. And I'll never get to use it. Because I don't have the trust or the freedom to." This interaction from more than a decade ago has been one of the main drivers for me to write my new book "The Human Router", coming soon on 13 Oct 2026.

I killed my book title last month. For over a year it was "The End of Leadership." AI walks in, the managers walk out, lights off on the way. But it pointed at the wrong thing. The thing AI actually ends is much more specific. It ends the routing. For decades, most of a manager's day was moving information around. Collecting updates. Forwarding decisions. Aligning one team with another. Summarizing a summary of a summary. The manager sat in the middle like a router in a network, passing packets from one node to the next, all day long. We called that leadership. It never was. That's why I initially called it "The End of Leadership", but that's not actually true... So the book has a new name. "The Human Router." Because that's the role that's ending. And most of us have played it far longer than we'd like to admit. More on the book soon. It lands 13 October 2026.

Two weeks of vacation. Zero calls from your team. Nothing stalled, nobody waited for you. Is that a compliment or a warning? Most leaders never find out, because nobody measures it. The free Leadership Reality Assessment does. 10 questions, 4 minutes, and you’ll see which of 5 leader profiles fits you, from The Router to The True Leader. Some results are uncomfortable. All of them are useful. #thehumanrouter

Emails, meetings, status reports. If that’s most of your day, your company doesn’t have a manager. It has a human router. And routing can be automated. The free Leadership Reality Assessment shows you in 10 questions how much of your role is real leadership, and how much a machine could take over tomorrow. Invest just 4 minutes and get your personal score. No sugarcoating. #thehumanrouter