Robert E. Kaplan

Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: Your strengths can work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working...

Coming In from the Rain features EmmaJean, who must bear childhood emotional scars throughout her life. She comes to a crossroad when these scars rear their heads, and start affecting her life as a leader, a mother, and a spouse.

A senior manager who specializes in putting out business fires is combustible when he shouldn’t be. Can he change enough to save his relationship with the love of his life? Can he stop fighting the need to reform?

Sam is a business turnaround artist. And, he has the mentality to match, a deeply ingrained pattern that plays out in all aspects of his life.

Gideon is in line to be CEO and wants the job in the worst way. Any day now, the decision will be handed down. On the day of reckoning, will he be judged worthy?

Veri Archer, an operating executive in her mid-forties, is recruited to be CEO of a high-tech start-up, replacing the founder-CEO, Sanjay Cherry. He stays on as CTO. For Veri, it becomes a rite of passage twice over.

The Expert Who Grinned is a compelling exploration of a woman at the crossroads of career success and the complexities of modern life.

Philip Konig had been recruited personally by the megabank’s CEO, Martin Middleton. His mandate: to fix investment banking. But much more that, Philip was brought in to be the heir apparent to replace Middleton.

Arm Wrestling with Myself features Jim Kaplan, whose family was struck by tragedy. Jim must come to grips with its effect and shares his thoughts about how to structure the future he wants at work and at home.

In GRAPPLING, leadership consultant Robert Kaplan brings real people’s inner battles to life through eight powerful, fictionalized case stories. Each one reveals how hard—and how human—the work of personal change truly is.