Power in Practice

Books Launching Early 2027

When the burden and the authority sit in different places.

The Long Chew follows the person carrying the cost; We Set the Table follows the decisions that can change the conditions.

For example: a capable employee keeps absorbing urgent work. Someone with authority removes a competing task, provides coverage, and checks whether the load actually fell.

Start with your question: What do I need? What can my authority change? Where can I practice? You can occupy both seats. Each title can be used on its own.

The Long Chew cover

Coming early 2027

What do I need?

The Long Chew

Capacity Is Not Consent: A Story of Burnout and Breakdown, with Tools for the Long Way Back

What happens when capable people become the place where unfinished work, invisible work, and organizational strain keep landing?

Discuss burnout support
Read selected passages: on what steady output hides

Selected passages from The Long Chew, Chapter 4. Coming early 2027.

Bodies keep ledgers that the executive calendar never shows. Walking into rooms that were not designed to hold you is exhausting. You perform competently and translate between what leadership said and what it meant. You absorb unnamed friction. This accumulation is draining. The exhaustion is a receipt.

Good work makes a poor thermometer.

Read an excerpt: one question to test the arrangement

From The Long Chew, Chapter 10. Coming early 2027.

An email proves somebody asked. A trail of activity is not enough. Write down the promise. Include how much, how long, and what came off your plate. Relief can take the shape of a renegotiation, with the same work on new terms.

We Set the Table cover

Coming early 2027

What can my authority change?

We Set the Table

How Leaders Prevent Burnout and Build Work People Can Sustain

Burnout is not only an individual experience. Leadership choices, workload, authority, expectations, operating practices, and organizational conditions shape what people are being asked to carry.

Discuss a leadership workshop or working session
Read an excerpt: the system reveals the value

From We Set the Table, Chapter 12. Coming early 2027.

Early in my career, I worked in an organization that could describe its physical inventory with extraordinary precision. It could not describe its people with the same precision. Inventory had systems, and talent had intentions.

Read selected passages: decide before you are depleted

Selected passages from We Set the Table, Chapter 3. Coming early 2027.

A threshold set in advance is a decision made by your rested self on behalf of your depleted one.

“We will keep an eye on it” leaves the next step uncertain. A calendar date, a named person, and a question to answer make the review easier to sustain through a busy quarter.

One Table, Two Perspectives cover

Coming early 2027

Where can I practice?

One Table, Two Perspectives

A Burnout Workbook for the Person Carrying the Load and the Leader Who Can Lighten It

A companion workbook with reusable pages for recognizing burnout, protecting capacity, and changing the conditions that cause it, from both seats at the table.

Ask about team use
Read an excerpt: a small beginning

From One Table, Two Perspectives. Coming early 2027.

A small observation can help you choose care without explaining your whole life.

A reader notices that she can still finish work but cannot face deciding what to eat. She writes that difference on Two Records. She chooses one offer from The Caring List and asks, “Could you bring dinner on Tuesday? Two options would help me choose.” She keeps the rest of the page private.

The meal helps that evening. It does not settle what work is costing her, and it does not oblige her to take on more.

Choose the perspective you need.

The Long Chew starts with the individual experience of carrying too much. We Set the Table turns toward the decisions and conditions leaders can change. One Table, Two Perspectives gives both seats a shared set of pages to work from.

Both books and their companion workbook launch together in early 2027. You can explore burnout workshops and support through Power in Practice now.

Explore burnout workshops and support

For a free personal reflection and assessment information, visit Sovereign Archetype.

Choose your next step

Choose the question that matters now. The two books explain their tools and include examples; the workbook offers additional practice. Reading all three or booking a workshop is optional.

Work with the tools

A custom workshop provides scoped assistance with a chosen decision or practice. The examples are discussion options, not a required next stage. Topics, formats, and availability may change; agree the scope and planned outputs before booking.

Explore current burnout and recovery offerings, including The Meadow: Recovery & Return and Burnout Repair for Leaders. Workshops include Think Like a Controller and Decision Rights & Accountability. Custom workshop topics are examples to discuss, with scope and availability agreed for your group.

Workbook and edition help

The print workbook is for handwriting. The reading and worksheet companion lets you print complete responses, download the current tool, or save a private backup for later restoration. Entries are not saved automatically. Keep personal reflections private. For group workbook copies or licensing, contact [email protected]; ordinary private notes do not require permission.

The books are scheduled for early 2027. Ordering links will be added when the editions are available. For edition, group-use, or delivery questions, request book support. Please omit private workbook responses and employee information.