Most leadership books focus on how to attract talent, onboard new team members, drive transformation and build culture. Good Bye by Alison Lucas and Lizzie Bentley Bowers addresses a stage that is almost always overlooked: how things end.
Drawing on their experience as top leadership coaches, Lucas and Bentley Bowers help readers find what they call the missing piece of the change leadership puzzle. Redundancies, office relocations, rebrands, promotions: these transitions leave scars that affect individuals and teams long after the event, and the book argues that ignoring that reality is not a viable leadership strategy.
The central insight is counterintuitive but compelling. The authors argue that the key to better endings is creating better beginnings. Through a series of exercises, stories and structured prompts, they build a framework for working through past, present and future endings, helping leaders and their teams reflect on what has been achieved, create meaningful closure and transform difficult transitions into opportunities for growth.
For anyone growing a business who will inevitably face resignations, restructures and the human complexity of change, Good Bye offers a roadmap for leading those moments with clarity and care.
Good Bye: Leading change better by attending to endings by Alison Lucas and Lizzie Bentley Bowers is published by Practical Inspiration Publishing.
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