Coming soon from Citrines
The Apex Leader
Authoring Reality in the Age of AI
You're in a meeting. Everyone in the room knows what the real issue is. Nobody says it. The meeting ends on time, and nothing changes.
It isn't the market. It isn't remote work, or the new generation, or AI. It's something far more fixable, and almost nobody can see it.
Inside the book
Some questions it answers
Why do smart teams go quiet?
And what does the leader do, without realising it, that keeps them that way?
Who are you at 6 p.m. on deadline day?
The leader your team remembers isn't the calm one. It's the one who shows up under pressure.
Seven faces. Which one is yours?
Six of them quietly undermine everything a leader is trying to build. Only one actually works.
Why does "great feedback" change nothing?
The most common way leaders soften the truth, and why it teaches people to stop listening.
Drift or design?
What separates the leaders who change from the ones who just learn new words for the same habits.
About the author
Muralidharan Jayaram
Partner at Citrines, global consultant and adviser to Fortune 100 organisations, and coach to senior executives and entrepreneurs through some of the hardest changes of their careers. The book distils decades of leading teams, consulting through change and coaching leaders into one practical way of seeing leadership.
Can't wait?
The ideas behind the book already power the Apex Leadership Program and the Team Builder Review.