The Right Altitude Field Guide to Hard Conversations
Having the Talk You've Been Avoiding

The conversation you've been avoiding is costing you more than having it ever will. This field guide maps hard conversations across five phases — reading the situation, preparation, delivery, follow-through, and the specific conversations leaders avoid most: performance, boundaries, peer conflict, and telling your boss the truth. Each phase comes with coaching questions, a 48-hour experiment, and the places it shows up in real leadership: the annual review ambush, the script that backfires, the tears that end the conversation, the agreement that changes nothing. Narrated by the author. Includes a companion PDF — the diagnostic and the tools from the guide, laid out to work with a pen — available at therightaltitudebook.com. From the author of The Right Altitude.