The Hero's Rope: Stop Carrying People Across the River and Start Teaching Them to Cross Themselves

Your "helpful" leadership is organizational cancer. And the $366 billion leadership development industry that taught you to be compassionate, empathetic, and supportive? They're profiting from your organization's slow death.

You see it everywhere: The employee who can't complete a task without constant check-ins. The team member who manufactures crises to stay relevant. The manager who swoops in to "save" every struggling project. You call it dedication. You reward it as leadership. But here...