The Leadership Paradox
What extraordinary leaders do when the strategy that built everything stops working
Chandell Labbozzetta
The strategy that got you here has a ceiling
Every leader has a strategy that built everything. Effort, reframing, pushing through. Then it stops working.
The Leadership Paradox is Chandell Labbozzetta's account of the night that happened to her, and the map she had drawn for other leaders for twenty years without holding it up against her own life. It is about what it costs a leader to run on survival, and what becomes available when they stop.
Its argument is simple. Lasting change in leadership happens at the level of identity, not skills. You can install a new behaviour on top of an old architecture, and under pressure it will revert. The book shows you the architecture underneath.
Four stages. One rope.
Every leader moves through the same four stages. Most cross by default, when the body, the team or the business forces it. The map lets you cross by design.
Survival
You lead by being the most capable person in the room at the thing that earned you the role.
Decision Bottleneck
That model meets scale and everything flows through you, until you are the ceiling on your own team.
The Shift
The crossing. The identity work of letting go of being the answer.
Steward Leadership
What becomes available on the other side.
The Stage Awareness Assessment shows where you are on the map before you read another page.
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Coming soon on AudibleBook details. The Leadership Paradox by Chandell Labbozzetta. Life Puzzle Press, October 2026. Paperback ISBN 978-0-99-702549-1. English (Australia).
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Stage Awareness Report - Reader Edition
Your personalised report from the five minute assessment, written for readers of the book, with the passages that match your stage.
Chapter-by-Chapter Reflection Guide
The questions to sit with after each chapter, for your own journal or your leadership team.
Reader Q&A Session
An invitation to a reader-only session with Chandell to ask about your own stage and what comes next.
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