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Between Chapters

Sixty-seven pages · eleven chapters · three parts

An honest companion for senior leaders in transition — between roles, between chapters, or between the person they have been and the one they are going to have to become.

Transition is the one period in a senior career when the usual defences stop working. The role that supplied the identity is gone. The people who reflected you back to yourself have stopped calling. And the question you have successfully deferred for twenty years — who am I when I am not doing this? — arrives without an appointment.

Most books written for this moment are about getting the next job quickly. This one is not. It is about the interval itself, and about not wasting it.

What is in it

  • The Honest Audit. What actually happened, as distinct from the version you have been telling at dinner parties. This part is uncomfortable and it is meant to be.
  • Clarification. What you are for, once the role is not supplying the answer.
  • Repositioning. What you do about it — and the difference between moving on and running away.

Eleven short chapters. It is designed to be worked slowly, alone, over weeks rather than days. If you finish it in an afternoon, you have not done it.

What happens after

You will receive a small number of considered letters over the following weeks — not a marketing sequence, but brief notes that may be useful at the points where most readers get stuck. An unsubscribe link sits at the foot of every one, and it works on the first click.

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Your address is used to send you the book and, occasionally, an essay. It is not shared, and one click removes you permanently.