Minibook · Becoming Leader, Vol. III
The Control Trap
Why You Can't Let Someone Else Hold It
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On the leader who can't let go — and what they're really holding.
About this book
- The thesis
- Your worth has lived in your output for so long that letting go feels like losing yourself. Control is the strategy that kept you safe when that was true. It outlived its purpose. You didn't.
- The belief running you
- “If I don't do it, it won't be done right.”
- The reframe
- The work now is to find out who you are when you're not the one holding it. To build people who do it differently from you. To discover you're still you when they do.
You opened your laptop at 10pm and rewrote your direct report's work. You told yourself you were maintaining quality. You took it back the next morning, and the morning after that.
Every framework you've tried — delegate more, trust your team, let go — works for forty-eight hours and dies. You already understand the pattern. The understanding hasn't been enough.
This book sits with what's underneath: the part of you that needs to be the one who gets it right, where it came from, why it kept you safe, and how to lead without dismantling it. Slower than another framework, and the only kind that holds.
A book for leaders who already know what to do — and can't stop doing it themselves.
“"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."”
From the book
“"You opened your laptop at 10pm and rewrote your direct report's work."”
About the Author
Francisco Baptista
Books from the coaching room. About the strategies that built senior leaders.
Currently: The Good Girl Costume— second of nineteen books on the strategies that built senior leaders, and now run them...
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