The ultimate test of leadership is not how well people perform when the leader is in the room, but how capably they think and act when the leader is not. What I value most about Built to Think is Leanne Terrace’s powerful shift from Solver to Sponsor—and her clear-eyed understanding that AI can accelerate good thinking but cannot create the human conditions that make it possible. Leaders who want to build capability rather than dependency will find this book both challenging and immensely practical.

The organizations that win in the future will not be the ones with the smartest tools, but the ones that have learned how to think. Leanne Terrace understands a challenge every growing leader eventually faces. Built to Think offers a practical way to build teams that can solve problems, make sound decisions, and adapt with confidence.

During my leadership at WD-40 Company, I learned that people do their best thinking when they feel safe enough to do it without permission. Built to Think turns that belief into a real operating system with disciplines any leader can put to work tomorrow morning.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed or stuck as your team grows, Built to Think will show you how to break free from the hero trap and unleash real decision-making power across your organization.

I have personally advised more than 20,000 companies on scaling toward a high-value exit. Built to Think is the system that builds it. If you ever intend to sell, or simply want the option, this is the work that has to happen first.

There is a yin and yang about great leadership. The leader may be a team’s greatest asset, but he or she is often at the same time the greatest impediment to collective performance.

“Most leaders fail, not through lack of IQ or even EQ, but because they do not know how to build ‘We. Q.’ or collaborative intelligence, in their leadership team and across their organization." Having spent nearly 50 years helping leaders develop collaborative intelligence, it is a joy to see Leanne’s new book. Built to Think lays out practical steps organization and team leaders can take to lessen the dependency of the organization on themselves and build sustainable collaborative intelligence into their organization.”

Built to Think builds a team that knows what it can decide and how to solve the rest together. Get the book, work the framework, and you'll feel it in your pipeline.

Leanne and I share a core passion for helping leaders build trusting, respectful workplaces — and this book really delivers. Built to Think is practical, respectful, and clearly grounded in her extensive and very accomplished thirty years in the saddle. It gives leaders what they need: a clear pathway to building teams that think, decide, and grow together.