From GAP to Great: Leadership Books New Approach: Why Some Leaders Multiply Performance While Others Drain It

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FROM GAP TO GREATStop Chasing High-Potential Stars and Start Building a Leadership System That Lifts Everyone.Leadership development is a multi-billion-dollar industry.Organizations spend enormous amounts of money identifying high-potential employees, sending leaders to workshops, administering personality assessments, and investing heavily in a select few future stars.Yet despite all that investment, most organizations still struggle with the same problems:Communication slows.Trust erodes.Meetings become performative.Good employees stop speaking honestly.Talented teams underperform.And leaders often have no idea it's happening until the damage appears in turnover reports, engagement surveys, missed deadlines, or declining results.Why?Because most organizations are measuring the wrong things.In From GAP to Great, leadership strategist, Army combat aviator, three-time Top Gun, and Bronze Star Medal recipient for valor in ground combat R.F. Price challenges one of the most deeply embedded assumptions in modern leadership: that greatness is created by investing in a select few while expecting everyone else to follow.Drawing on more than four decades of leadership experience—from leading soldiers in combat and commanding aviation units in the 101st Airborne Division to developing more than 35,000 leaders across seventeen countries—Price reveals the hidden behavioral systems shaping organizational performance every day.As a recipient of the Association for Talent Development's prestigious BEST Award and contributor to the #1 globally ranked enterprise leadership and talent development organization, Price has spent decades helping organizations understand the connection between leadership behavior, trust, communication, culture, and performance. An International Impact Book Award winner, bestselling author, and 2026 Author of the Year Finalist, he combines the perspective of a combat leader, executive strategist, and recognized thought leader to translate complex organizational dynamics into practical frameworks leaders can immediately apply.In this groundbreaking book, you'll discover:✓ Why most organizations fall into the High-Potential Trap✓ How employees detect leadership instability long before executives recognize it✓ The hidden costs of vigilance, communication narrowing, and truth delay✓ Why psychological safety is a measurable business variable—not a soft skill✓ How pressure reveals leadership behavior more accurately than performance reviews✓ The difference between high performers and true leadership multipliers✓ Why great leaders lift everyone in the room—not just the stars✓ Practical frameworks for measuring trust, communication velocity, emotional climate, and organizational visibilityPart leadership book, part behavioral science, and part organizational operating system, From GAP to Great introduces a new way of thinking about leadership performance: Leadership Visibility.This isn't another book about charisma, motivation, executive presence, or leadership theory.It's a practical guide to understanding how people actually behave under pressure—and how leaders can create environments where trust moves faster than fear, communication moves faster than politics, and organizations perform closer to their true potential.Because greatness is rarely achieved when a few people become exceptional.Greatness happens when entire systems rise together.If you're a leader, executive, manager, HR professional, coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or anyone responsible for developing people and building culture, From GAP to Great will change the way you see leadership forever.Great leaders lift everyone in the room. Read more