Leading Before the Incident
Why Executives Are Farther From Reality Than They Realize
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This leadership and governance book examines executive distance from operational reality, risk, incident prevention, safety leadership, compliance pressure, and how organizations normalize hazards before failure becomes visible.
Most leaders wait until failure is visible. This book shows why that is already too late.
Most preventable incidents do not begin with failure.
They begin with tolerance.
Long before an event makes the news, leadership decisions quietly reshape risk. Red conditions are reframed as gray.
When the incident finally occurs, executives are often surprised.
They shouldn’t be.
Book Description
Leading Before the Incident examines why executives are often farther from operational reality than they realize—and how leadership distance normalizes risk.
This is not a safety manual.
It does not offer checklists.
It explains why leadership decisions matter before failure.
Because the most important incident is the one you will never see.
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