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Breaking Orbit: Some leaders rise by standing tall. She rose by falling hard.
Hardcover
Series: Starbound: The Navi Sol Journey
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
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ISBN13: 9781068773747
Publisher: Kpi Services Publishing
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Navi Sol gets the promotion everyone says she's earned. She just never asked for it. Now she's leading a deep-space starship built on systems, data, and expertise - and learning fast that the hardest part of leadership is not the responsibility. It's who you feel you have to become.
Under pressure, Navi reshapes herself into what she thinks the system rewards: polished, decisive, and just emotionally distant enough to look in control. On paper, it works. On the deck, it quietly starts to fall apart.
When a high-risk mission hits, Navi backs someone she trusts completely: a loyal, eager yes man who would follow her anywhere. The team has doubts. The data raises flags. The warning signs are there. But speed, optics, and the need to prove herself win out. And the cost is something she can't undo. What follows is not a tidy leadership lesson. It's the moment every leader fears: when trust breaks, when the team goes quiet, and you realize the problem is not the mission. It's you.
This is a leadership story for people who are tired of leadership books that pretend pressure is optional.
Fictional, but grounded in the very real challenges leaders face every day:
- The pressure to look certain even when you are not
- The quiet pull to reward loyalty instead of capability
- The moment a team stops speaking up, and you do not notice right away
- The distance you build to feel in control
- How hard it is to rebuild trust once it is gone
If you have ever stepped into leadership and felt yourself changing, this story will feel uncomfortably familiar. Because we do not learn leadership from textbooks. We learn it from each other. From shared experiences. From real stories. From the moments that do not go to plan. And sometimes, the people who never chased leadership are the ones who discover what it truly means.
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