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Silverplate: A Novel About Leadership, Ambition, and the Cost of Success
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Jack Stuart spent his entire career trying to reach the next room. Now that he's finally inside, he's beginning to wonder what he was chasing in the first place.
At fifty, Jack has achieved what he once thought would be enough. He is a Vice President at Silverplate Mechanical Services, responsible for forty-seven branches, hundreds of employees, and more responsibility than he has ever carried.
But Silverplate has a problem.
Its people are working harder than ever, yet some branches thrive while others struggle. Managers chase numbers instead of fixing problems. Corporate systems designed to create control often make the work harder. Strong leaders become overwhelmed because everyone depends on them, while weaker leaders learn to hide inside the system.
Jack's instinct has always been simple: when something is broken, take responsibility and fix it.
That instinct built his career.
Now it may be the very thing holding him back.
As Jack works with an ambitious young Regional Manager, an old-school operator under investigation, struggling branch leaders, corporate executives, and a mentor who sees something in Jack that Jack is only beginning to understand, he is forced to confront a different definition of leadership.
A leader's job isn't to personally produce every result. It is to build an organization capable of producing results without needing the leader to rescue it.
At the same time, Jack is confronting a more personal question. After a lifetime of chasing promotions, money, recognition, and the next opportunity, how much is enough? And how much of his ambition belongs to the fifty-year-old executive he is today-and how much still belongs to the fourteen-year-old boy determined to prove that his family could succeed and do it the right way?
Silverplate is a business novel about leadership, ambition, loyalty, corporate life, and the difficult transition from being the person who can fix everything to becoming the leader who no longer has to.
For anyone who has ever led a team, managed an operation, chased the next promotion-or finally reached the position they wanted and wondered why they were already looking at the next one-Silverplate asks a deceptively simple question:
What are others able to do because you lead?
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