Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

Francis Frei & Anne Morriss

This book helped me reset how I think about leadership - not as command and control, but as a responsibility to create the conditions for others to thrive. Frei and Morriss don’t sugarcoat it: great leadership starts with getting your own house in order, then expanding your impact by building trust, delivering clear strategy, and showing up consistently. I’ve gone back to Unleashed when navigating messy org charts, new leadership roles, or just needing a gut check on what it actually means to empower people without losing accountability. It’s one of the most practical leadership books out there - sharp, human, and refreshingly no-BS.

Read Unleashed if you’re looking to:

• Level up from managing tasks to unlocking people

• Lead with trust and high standards

• Create clarity that scales across teams and complexity