The Book · Coming 2026
Between Meetings
How the best leaders reclaim 10 hours a week at the intersection of EQ and AI
A field guide, short on purpose — nine chapters, under 140 pages, readable on a flight from Chicago to Albuquerque. Written for the leader whose calendar is full, whose AI window is open, and whose week still isn’t adding up to leverage.
It is 4:47 on a Friday afternoon. The messages have stopped — not because there is nothing left to handle, but because everyone has given up on getting an answer from you today…
The leaders who pull ahead from this point forward will not be the most AI-fluent. They will not be the most emotionally intelligent. They will be the ones who realize that AI without EQ accelerates dysfunction — and EQ without AI is admirable but slow.
By the last page, you’ll know
Your Leader Archetype
Five archetypes describe how leaders relate to AI and their team — from the Heroic Doer to the Multiplier. Almost everyone is one of them without realizing it.
Your DLQ
The Delegation Leadership Quotient: one number that captures your real operating leverage. EQ scales trust; AI scales speed. Your capacity is the product — not the sum.
The Four Delegation Modes
Hold (only you), Human-Led (a teammate owns it), AI-Augmented (you direct, AI executes), and Hybrid Leverage (a teammate with AI). A vocabulary for moving work out of the only-I-can-do-it column — deliberately.
The 30-Day Reset
Four weeks, one discipline per week. By the end: measurable hours reclaimed, at least one hard conversation had, and one AI experiment your team actually uses.
And you’ll leave with three words that travel for the rest of your career: Hungry. Humble. Here.
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