We can do more than ever. So why doesn't it feel like enough?


Hi Reader! Daria’s here.

Have you ever noticed that we’re all doing too much and still not feeling caught up.

The pace of change is high, the pace of work is higher, and AI pushed it up another level. Now that we know we can produce so much more, it’s as if we feel guilty when we don’t. So we push ourselves, we push our teams, we push our organizations — without stopping to ask: Are we moving in the right direction? Are we creating value? What’s the ROI? Does any of this make sense?

I published my book, CLICKING, a year ago. And it feels like this is the exact moment for it to be out in the world.

The book isn’t about AI. But it has everything to do with how our work is changing in AI-driven workplaces.

We’re still running on old habits — a bias toward execution over planning and reflection. And leaders are still playing the hero. Sometimes it’s the ego. Sometimes it’s the role model we grew up watching. Mostly it’s the story leadership development has been selling us for decades:

  • You need to develop your people.
  • Satisfy customers.
  • Be decisive.
  • Have executive presence.
  • Manage stakeholders.
  • Motivate the team.
  • Set a clear direction.

Everything points back to the leader. But no single person can solve the challenges of this speed and complexity alone — not without burning out, dropping quality, or coming apart somewhere along the way.

The era of heroic leadership is over. This is the time for empowered teams.

That’s what CLICKING is about: a strategy for overloaded leaders to build teams that hold — stronger trust, better results, and more time back for the leader.

The book came out last August, and it’s been a good year. It reached bestseller status in a few Amazon categories, and in January it received the Outstanding Literary Achievement Award from the International Impact Book Awards, in the Leadership – People Management & Team Leadership category.

To celebrate, I’m putting the Kindle version at 99 cents for the next couple of weeks.

If you read it and it lands, please leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads. Before I published, I had no idea how much reviews matter. Now I do — it’s how the book finds its next reader.


And if you leave one, message me. I’d love to thank you personally and hear what you liked. Send me a screenshot, or just tell me which country’s Amazon you posted on, and I’ll find it.

Stay tuned.

Talk to you next Thursday.

Daria

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