Blunt Leadership: How to Lead with Grit, Grace, and Gut-Level Honesty in a World That’s Obsessed with Playing Nice (eBook)

Blunt Leadership: How to Lead with Grit, Grace, and Gut-Level Honesty in a World That’s Obsessed with Playing Nice (eBook)

Darnell Pulliam
Darnell Pulliam
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Lingua: en
Editore: I.Fizz
Codice EAN: 9798227272409
Anno pubblicazione: 2025
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Leadership has been smoothed down, dressed up, and made palatable for boardrooms that prefer silence over confrontation. But the truth is, most people don't need another lesson in smiling through conflict or tiptoeing around underperformance. They need clarity. They need backbone. They need someone who will stop playing nice long enough to say what actually needs to be said. Blunt Leadership is a straight-spined, unflinching look at what it means to lead with grit, grace, and gut-level honesty—because anything less doesn't work. This book speaks to the person who's tired of performance reviews filled with soft language and vague direction. It speaks to leaders who are fed up with watching their teams flounder under indecision, avoid hard truths, and pretend consensus is more important than momentum. Darnell Pulliam doesn't deal in fluff. He's not here to help you write better emails or conduct more "inclusive" check-ins. He's here to challenge how you lead, how you think, and how you show up when people are counting on you to say what no one else will. Blunt leadership isn't about being harsh. It's about being real. It's about knowing when to push and when to pause, but never pulling punches when it matters. It's about creating trust through truth and respecting people enough to tell them what's holding them back. It's not about managing perception—it's about managing reality. And in a world full of noise, vague feedback, and watered-down directives, the leader who can tell the truth clearly, firmly, and without apology becomes the one everyone listens to. Pulliam breaks down what it takes to lead without sugarcoating. He shows why false harmony destroys team culture faster than conflict ever could, and how clarity—delivered with conviction—makes people feel safer than vague encouragement ever will. You'll learn how to have the hard conversations without losing your humanity. How to stop protecting egos and start developing character. How to dismantle dysfunction by refusing to dance around it. And how to hold people to high standards without becoming cold or cruel. Inside these pages, readers are confronted with the cost of leadership that's too nice: missed deadlines, mediocre work, hidden resentment, and entire teams drifting under the radar. You'll see how politeness, when misused, becomes a shield for avoidance. And how the willingness to be honest, especially when it's uncomfortable, is one of the deepest acts of respect you can offer another person. Blunt Leadership is not about making people feel good. It's about making people better. It's not about controlling people—it's about confronting reality, together. Pulliam walks readers through real-world dynamics—employees who hide behind busyness, executives who speak in riddles, managers afraid to confront poor performers—and offers a different way forward. A way rooted in directness, fairness, and the belief that the truth, when spoken well, creates more loyalty than silence ever could. You'll learn how to spot manipulation in polite packaging. How to challenge without humiliating. How to inspire respect without demanding it. Pulliam teaches you to stop over-explaining, to say no without guilt, and to draw lines without disclaimers. He doesn't glamorize bluntness—he defines it as a disciplined, intentional approach that cuts through the fog and makes room for real growth. Blunt Leadership is for the leader who's done being diplomatic at the cost of results. Who's done pacifying dysfunction for the sake of keeping the peace. It's for the manager who's ready to stop babysitting and start building. It's for the business owner who's lost too much time and talent to weak communication and is ready to demand something better—from themselves and from everyone around them.