Why Senior Leaders Need a Team of Misfits

Why Senior Leaders Need a Team of Misfits

Tracey Jones

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What if being pushed out was actually the beginning?

The Island of Misfit Leaders is a leadership parable about eight extraordinary leaders — Unity, Truth, Logic, Passion, Industry, Candor, Merit, and Conscience — who were told they were too much, not enough, or simply didn't fit. Cast out by organizations that couldn't handle their gifts, they wash up on a bleak, mysterious island haunted by the Abominable Mirror Man — a creature who weaponizes every rejection, every failure, every lie they ever believed about themselves.

But what broke them individually becomes unstoppable when they stand together.

Part fable, part leadership manifesto, this book is for every leader who has ever been penalized for telling the truth, raising the standard, or refusing to play politics. Your gift was never the problem. The soil was.

You were never a misfit. You were just misaligned.

Have You Ever Been Told You Didn't Fit In?

Have You Ever Been Told You Didn't Fit In?

Tracey Jones

Organizations are supposed to bring out the best in people. But here's the paradox: each of these leaders was forced out for the very things that healthy cultures should have been developing and nurturing.

Will they find their way off the island? Or are they forever carrying their misfit label?

This modern-day Pilgrim's Progress is a transformational journey for every leader who's been told they're "too much" or "not enough."

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