The career. The company. The reputation. The book is still waiting.
It lives in the margins of your calendar — in voice notes on flights, in the stories you tell on stage that no one has ever captured. You know it is the most important thing you will leave behind. And "someday" has quietly become "never."
When leaders finally commit, the traditional path asks for what they should never have to give: years of waiting, a share of their rights, a manuscript edited until it no longer sounds like them.