Executive Science
Make Following You Inevitable
A century of evidence on why people follow some leaders and quietly stop following others, and what that evidence tells you to do differently.
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The Kindle edition is available to pre-order now. The paperback goes on sale on 1 November. Leave your email and we will tell you the day it lands.
In the end, the followers decide.
Most leadership advice treats followership as chemistry, something you either have or spend a career faking. A hundred years of evidence says otherwise. Following is a pattern, and patterns can be read, taught and rebuilt.
Executive Science takes the assessment methods used to evaluate candidates for the most consequential roles in an organization and turns them around, so you can apply them to yourself. It is the same conviction this firm is named for: read the pattern, not the performance.
Written for people who already lead, and have noticed that whatever got them here does not reliably get anyone to follow.
Four things you will be able to do by the last page
Every one of these is something you can act on the week you finish the book.
Read the climate you have created without meaning to
Every leader sets a climate. Most set one they never chose and could not describe if you asked them to.
Understand why belief arrives before ability
Teams commit to people they believe in before those people have proved anything. That order is not a flaw in human judgment. It is how the whole thing works.
Work out what silence is costing you
What nobody says in your meetings is the most reliable measure you have of how you are actually leading.
See derailment coming
Good leaders fail in patterns, and the patterns show up long before the failure does. Your own included.
Get the paperback reminder and what comes next
Amazon does not allow pre-orders on paperbacks, so the print edition goes on sale on 1 November. Leave your email and we will tell you the day it lands. You will also get new writing on leadership, and the Executive Science vidcast, a new episode every week once it starts.
Thank you. We will be in touch on 1 November.
Contents
Ten chapters, opening with the evidence base and closing with the argument the book is built on.
Buying for a leadership team
If you are ordering for a team, an offsite or a cohort, get in touch. We can help with logistics, signed copies and a briefing session for the group.
Questions
When does it ship?
The Kindle edition arrives automatically on 1 November 2026, and you are not charged until then. Ordering early costs you nothing and helps the book from the moment you do it.
Which formats are there?
Kindle, available to pre-order now, and paperback on publication day. Amazon does not allow pre-orders on print, so leave your email and we will tell you when the paperback is live.
Can I order outside the US?
The Kindle edition is on every major Amazon store, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, India, Japan, Brazil and Mexico. Use the store picker at the top of this page.
Do you speak about this?
The material works as a keynote or as a session with a leadership team. Start a conversation and mention the book.