From Uncertainty to Impact

About the book

Nobody hands you a manual when you become a leader for the first time. Robert Tignor didn't get one either: not in the theme park restaurant he was managing at seventeen, not when he was handed a struggling 77-store franchise region with a one-year-old at home, and not in the corporate boardrooms he'd later walk into as an executive coach. He figured it out the way most of us do: in real moments, usually with people watching, usually while making it up as he went.

From Uncertainty to Impact is the playbook he wishes someone had given him. Told through twenty chapters of honest, sometimes funny, occasionally painful stories (a dish pit, a Little League bleacher, a seven-hour car ride, a hallway conversation that changed how an entire team saw him), this book trades leadership theory for the real thing: what it actually feels like to lead people when you don't have all the answers yet.

What's inside

Who it's for

The leader who just got promoted and doesn't quite believe they belong in the room yet. You do. Let's talk about what happens once you stop waiting for permission to be there.

• First-time managers and new supervisors
• Growing leaders stepping into a bigger role
• Anyone leading people before they feel "ready"