BOOK TWO FROM THE LIVING ORGANIZATION® TRILOGY
See your role as a leader through a new lens and deliver extraordinary results.
Katherine Sharpe never expected to be running the company. But when her father’s sudden heart attack puts her in charge, she inherits not just a title — but a team that won’t take ownership, a strategy that isn’t sticking, and pressure coming from every direction.
What she discovers, through her mentor Merlyn, changes how she sees everything.
Written by: Norman and Jane Wolfe
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Leading the Living Organization is a compelling and timely guide for leaders who understand that organizations are not machines to be managed, but living communities to be nurtured. . . . [This book] offers wisdom, heart, and a road map for anyone ready to build a culture where love and learning drive lasting success.”
THE SHIFT THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Leading the Living Organization® introduces a fundamentally different way of leading.
Katherine’s journey is the journey most leaders are already on. The frustration of capable people who won’t step up. The gap between strategy and execution that no process seems to close. The weight of ownership that keeps flowing back to you.
Through Katherine and her mentor Merlyn, this book introduces a fundamentally different way of seeing: organizations are not machines to be optimized — they are living entities to be developed. And the leader’s job isn’t to control what people do. It’s to shape the context that determines their behavior.
That shift changes everything.
WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER
The insights leaders have been waiting for.
Each chapter delivers a story you’ll recognize and a framework you can apply immediately.
Why execution keeps stalling...
How to shift who carries the weight...
The six skills that give you real influence...
Why culture change doesn't stick...
How to lead with head and heart...
Why development produces compliance...
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Norman and Jane Wolfe have crafted a compelling path of insight and reflection that can inspire leaders at any stage of their careers to unleash the human magic in their teams.”
Ready to see your organization differently?
A FRAMEWORK THAT WORKS
PART ONE
The Living Organization® in Action
Follows Katherine, through the The Living Organization® perspective, navigating real organizational crises — silos, conflict, a global pivot, teams that won’t take ownership. The new paradigm in practice, not theory.
PART TWO
The Six Leadership Skills
Katherine learns the six leadership skills for herself, discovering how to lead a living entity from the inside out. The developmental journey that makes the paradigm shift operational.
THE SIX LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Real influence over the forces that drive behavior.
Not competencies to be learned. Developmental capacities to be grown.
Heart-Centered Wisdom
Accessing intuition and insight alongside analytical thinking; the ability to sense what’s happening below the surface before it becomes a crisis.
Heart-Centered Communication
Listening to both the words and the energy behind them; creating genuine psychological safety.
Reframing Context
Shifting the underlying narratives that drive collective behavior, not just rearranging activities.
Improv Mindset
Navigating uncertainty and disruption with confidence; the “Yes, and…” stance that transforms how you meet change.
Balancing Opposites
Moving beyond either/or thinking to integrate competing goods; stability and transformation, accountability and growth.
Leader as Coachsultant
Knowing when to guide exploration and when to provide direction; the skill that develops your people’s capacity to own results.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Through a powerful leadership parable, Norman and Jane Wolfe reveal how culture, purpose, relationships, and consciousness determine results far more profoundly than strategy alone. . . . If you sense that your company is meant to be alive—not merely efficient—this is an essential guide for the journey.”
ABOUT NORMAN & JANE WOLFE
Norman Wolfe
Creator, The Living Organization® · CEO, Quantum Leaders Inc.
A former HP executive and trusted CEO advisor, Norman has spent over forty years working with organizations from Fortune 500 companies to tech startups — not theorizing about leadership, but doing the work alongside the leaders who live it. He is the author of the The Living Organization® trilogy.
Jane Wolfe
EVP, Quantum Leaders Inc. · Author, Improv Your Relationships
A leadership and communication coach, improvisational theater practitioner, and EVP of Quantum Leaders. Jane’s background in improv, communications, and relationship work is woven throughout the Six Leadership Skills, and throughout this book.
ALSO IN THE LIVING ORGANIZATION® TRILOGY
BOOK ONE
The Living Organization: A New Way to See
The encounter that started it all. If Book Two, Leading the Living Organization, is the journey, Book One is the moment you first see the new world.
BOOK TWO
Leading the Living Organization
Leading the Living Organization is available for pre-order now. Reserve your copy and be among the first to read Katherine’s story and discover the framework behind it.
BOOK THREE
Creating Extraordinary Results The Living Organization Way
Coming…
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“Leading The Living Organization is a profound reframe of what leadership actually is—and where real performance comes from. Norman Wolfe moves leaders beyond managing activity and into shaping the inner life of their organizations, where relationships, meaning, and context determine results. This book gives leaders a clear, practical way to create true capacity that’s built to last.”
The way you lead is the ceiling on what your organization can become.
The paradigm Katherine discovers isn’t reserved for extraordinary leaders. It’s available to any leader willing to see their organization and their role through a different lens.