{"product_id":"the-right-altitude-field-guide-don-eash-9798994948774","title":"The Right Altitude Field Guide to Hard Conversations: Having the Talk You've Been Avoiding","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most expensive silence in leadership is the conversation you're not having.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery leader has one - the direct report you're managing around, the peer conflict you keep hoping resolves itself, the feedback that's a month overdue. Leadership stalls in the gap between knowing you need to say something and saying it. And the longer you wait, the more it costs - usually your best people first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a field guide for the talk you've been putting off. Not theory - a practical arc you can work through before you walk in: reading the situation, preparing without over-scripting, delivering directly without being harsh, following through so the change holds, and handling the conversations leaders dread most - the performance gap, the boundary, the peer conflict, the one with your boss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart with the diagnostic to find where you break down, then go straight to the phase that fixes it. Every practice comes with a coaching question and a forty-eight-hour experiment - because the point was never to understand hard conversations. It's to have the one you're avoiding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon Eash is a Master Certified Coach (MCC, ACTC) who spent three decades leading teams at Disney, Universal, and Gateway Ticketing before coaching full time. Over 6,000 hours and more than 1,000 leaders - at Google, Meta, LinkedIn, AT\u0026amp;T, and dozens of other organizations - he has coached the conversation you're avoiding more times than he can count.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of The Right Altitude Field Guide series - a companion to The Right Altitude: What Nobody Tells You About Being a Leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Eash\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994948774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Eash Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d","brand":"Don Eash","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997961728255,"sku":"9798994948774","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-right-altitude-field-guide-don-eash-9798994948774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}