The Right Altitude
What Nobody Tells You About Being a Leader

12 chapters. 48 tools. Built from 7,000+ hours of executive coaching with more than 1,000 leaders.You got promoted because you were the one who always came through. Now you're working harder than you've ever worked and somehow producing less. Your calendar is full of work that belongs 2 levels below you. The conversation you need to have has been sitting in your drafts for 3 months. And the higher you climb, the louder the voice gets that says someone is about to figure you out.Nobody prepared you for this part. Every promotion is an expert-to-beginner transition. The skills that built your career are not always the ones that will sustain it, and nobody tells you when they stop working. So you retreat to the work you know, the altitude where you felt competent, and wonder why the role feels so heavy.The Right Altitude is the book for the role nobody prepared you for. Don Eash names the patterns that keep leaders stuck and hands you the tools to move through them. Every chapter follows the same structure: the pattern, the reframe, the tools, and the experiment, followed by The Mirror, a set of hard questions to sit with and answer in writing.Find the right altitude. Lead from there. And define good on your own terms.By executive coach Don Eash, MCC, ACTC, who spent 30 years in executive leadership and has coached more than 1,000 leaders.