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Chapter 01

Your Executive Self-Assessment

See where decisions, problems, and uncertainty flow, and whether too much thinking is coming back through you.

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Chapter 02

Where Does Thinking Live?

Uncover where thinking happens, where decisions stall, and where people may be waiting instead of contributing.

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Praise for Built to Think

Thirty leading authorities, best selling authors, and CEOs read the book before it went to print. These perspectives capture what they saw in the work.

01“

“Leaders who want to build capability rather than dependency will find this book both challenging and immensely practical.”

The ultimate test of leadership is how capably people think and act when the leader is not in the room.

Jim Huling

Executive Coach and Co-Author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution

02“

“If every important decision has to come through you, growth will always have a ceiling.”

Built to Think offers a practical way to build teams that can solve problems, make sound decisions, and adapt with confidence.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author

03“

“The book I wish I had when I was still trying to be the one with all the answers.”

Built to Think turns the belief that people can think without permission into a real operating system.

Garry Ridge

Chairman Emeritus, WD-40 Company & USA Today Bestselling Author

04“

“Break free from the hero trap and unleash real decision-making power across your organization.”

A clear invitation for leaders who feel overwhelmed or stuck as their teams grow.

David Meerman Scott

Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Fanocracy

05“

“Buyers pay for one thing above all: a company that does not depend on the founder.”

Founder independence creates business value and gives owners more strategic options.

Kane Minkus

Business growth and exit advisor

06“

“Knowing when and how to ‘get out of the way’ is a core leadership skill, and this book shows how.”

Great leaders can be both a team’s greatest asset and an impediment to collective performance.

Prof. David Clutterbuck

Leadership and team coaching pioneer

07“

“Software won't fix a team that lacks clear, shared problem-solving habits.”

Built to Think directly addresses organizational bottlenecks and gives leaders a practical system for building self-reliant teams.

Dr. Natasha Mrkic-Subotic

Leadership Instructor and Chair, School of Business, Capilano University | Managing Director

08“

“The question goes up the chain and sits there.”

Built to Think builds a team that knows what it can decide and how to solve the rest together.

Todd Hartley

Wall St. Journal Best Selling Author

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About the Author

Meet Leanne Terrace

Leanne Terrace was helping run a 600-person security agency in sub-Saharan Africa when the country collapsed into civil war. Payroll was still due. Contracts still had to be honored. Every theory she’d learned plus years of her own experience got tested at once, and her question got sharper: what keeps people thinking and making good decisions together when the pressure is on?

She’d been chasing that question long before the war. It’s why she studied psychology, then took an MBA at UBC’s Sauder School of Business on a Dean’s Entrance Fellowship. She wanted to understand people, team dynamics, and then build workplaces around what she found.

The same pattern kept showing up. Smart people, stuck companies, thinking jammed at the top while everyone below waited for permission. Thirty years of experimenting with what unsticks them and shifts teams toward brilliant outcomes produced what fills Built to Think: practices tested in rooms where paychecks were due.

Today she coaches CEOs and leadership teams to build companies that think, and helps organizations use AI without weakening the human judgment, trust, and ownership that good decisions require.

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Built to Think Reader Resources

Put Built to Think
Into Practice.

The book gives you the system. This library gives you practical tools, assessments, and resources to help you use it inside your company.

Browse the Resource Library

Resource Library

Practical Tools for Every Chapter.

Use these resources as you read, revisit them with your leadership team, and put the ideas from Built to Think to work.

Chapter 01

Your Executive Self-Assessment

See where decisions, problems, and uncertainty flow, and whether too much thinking is coming back through you.

Download Assessment

Chapter 02

Your Self-Assessment

Use the Chapter 2 assessment to examine how thinking, ownership, and escalation currently work inside your organization.