Leading the Living Organization

Transform How You Lead to Deliver Extraordinary Results

by Norman Wolfe; Jane Wolfe

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Pub Date Sep 1 2026 | Archive Date Not set

Amplify Publishing

Business, Leadership, Finance | Nonfiction (Adult) | Self-Help

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Description

Katherine Sharpe never expected to become CEO overnight. After her father’s sudden heart attack, she’s left steering the company through new product launches, a global pandemic, and unrelenting market pressures. Yet despite her efforts, she finds her team hesitant to take ownership, slow to collaborate, and unprepared for the challenges ahead.

Just as she nears her breaking point, Katherine meets Merlyn, a consultant who introduces her to The Living Organization® framework. Merlyn challenges her to see what most leaders miss: Organizations are not machines to be engineered but living beings to be developed. That shift changes everything.

Through their conversations, Katherine discovers that the key to leading isn’t controlling what people do but shaping the context that determines their behavior. She learns that authentic leadership requires more than plans and performance metrics; it calls for presence, wisdom, and the courage to lead with the whole of who she is—so the organization she serves can do the same.

Empowered by her newfound approach to align both strategy and culture, extraordinary results soon begin to materialize.

Leading the Living Organization delivers not just a leadership fable but a call to embrace a new paradigm of business leadership. Readers will see themselves in Katherine’s struggles, and leaders at every level will find inspiration and practical tools to meet today’s turbulence with clarity, resilience, and renewed confidence in building a better future.

Advance Praise

“Leading the Living Organization is a compelling and timely guide for leaders who understand that organizations are not machines to be managed, but living communities to be nurtured. . . . [This book] offers wisdom, heart, and a road map for anyone ready to build a culture where love and learning drive lasting success.”

—GARRY RIDGE, former CEO and chairman emeritus, WD-40 Company; The Culture Coach and founder, The Learning Moment; USA Today bestselling author of Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It

“Norman and Jane Wolfe have crafted a compelling path of insight and reflection that can inspire leaders at any stage of their careers to unleash the human magic in their teams.”

—HUBERT JOLY, Harvard Business School, former Best Buy CEO, bestselling author of The Heart of Business

“Through a powerful leadership parable, Norman and Jane Wolfe reveal how culture, purpose, relationships, and consciousness determine results far more profoundly than strategy alone. . . . If you sense that your company is meant to be alive—not merely efficient—this is an essential guide for the journey.”

—RAJ SISODIA, cofounder, Conscious Capitalism

“Leading The Living Organization is a profound reframe of what leadership actually is—and where real performance comes from. Norman Wolfe moves leaders beyond managing activity and into shaping the inner life of their organizations, where relationships, meaning, and context determine results. This book gives leaders a clear, practical way to create true capacity that’s built to last.”

—DR. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, Thinkers50 #1 executive coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Available Editions

EDITION	Hardcover
ISBN	9798891388529
PRICE	$30.00 (USD)
PAGES	304

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