Leading Things You Didn't Start

Winning Big When You Inherit People, Places, and Possibilities

By: Tyler Reagin, Judah Smith - introduction

Narrated by: Tyler Reagin, P.J. Ochlan

A high-impact leadership coach gives you the tools you need to maximize your influence in a new role, giving you the ability to meet any challenge and take your team, organization, church, or company to new heights.

“A practical path to maximizing your influence, navigating transitions, and producing positive results.”—Jon Gordon, 10x bestselling author of The Power of Positive Leadership

Sure, it’s inspirational when we hear stories about those who founded companies from their garages with one hundred dollars cash while in high school. But such success is super rare and not always how it plays out for great leaders.

The reality is that most leaders are responsible for corporations, teams, and products they didn’t launch from the ground up. Tyler Reagin saw the immense need to address this mission-critical but often overlooked aspect of leadership: healthy transition for leaders who inherit teams, places, or platforms others created.

His groundbreaking book Leading Things You Didn’t Start provides a faith-based four-step plan that answers practical questions such as:

• Do I really want to take over something loved by so many?
• Is there a secret sauce to doing what the leaders before me did?
• How do I get the current team on board with my leadership?
• How do I honor the past without being trapped by it?
• How do I steward the legacy of the leaders who started the movement?

Through the use of tried-and-true coaching principles and practical case studies with leaders like Buzz Williams, head coach at Texas A&M, and Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes, Reagin helps you maximize your newfound influx of influence and master the intentions of an inheriting leader.

We all could learn from this.

Tyler shares such simple, yet profound practical ways we can get better as leaders. This is a must-read for anyone walking into any role with any organization.

Excellent Book!

LOVE this book. Just bought it for my whole team to read. Also, engaging to listen to on audio. Highly recommend. Everyone starting a new job that’s inheriting a new ministry MUST read this!

Simple, known concepts applied in a powerful way

Tyler takes simple concepts and applies them to leadership and business in ways that I hadn't heard before. Eye-opening and potentially game-changing if applied.

Great Book with helpful instructions

I loved this book. I will likely read it again and again. It is great.

novice leadership

good points but lots of novice leadership advices. it can be a good book overall for the right audience.