Disrupt Everything?and Win Take Control of Your Future Patterson James 2025 HCDJ

From James Patterson, the world’s #1 bestselling author, and Patrick Leddin, PhD―the New York Times bestselling guide to adapting to change for professional, personal, and practical advantage.

Markets shift overnight. Reorganizations land without warning. AI rewrites the rules. What matters most is knowing when to protect what's working, and to how change what’s not.

In Disrupt Everything, James Patterson and Patrick Leddin explore how to navigate the forces that disrupt our lives and businesses. Drawing on a multiyear Vanderbilt University research project and utilizing the framework behind a FranklinCovey leadership course taught inside organizations worldwide, this essential book teaches the skills and tactics everyone needs to come out ahead.

Learn how to:

• Inhabit the Positive Disrupter Loop: Discern, Behave, Achieve, Refine.
• Identify the five disruptive roles, and how to know which one you're playing right now.
• Adopt 16 behaviors that turn disruption into results for you, your team, and your organization.
• Become expert at the nine practical tools to put it all to work.

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. An Edgar, ten-time Emmy, and Literarian Award–winning creator of countless beloved series―including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, and Maximum Ride―Patterson has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Michael Crichton, and Viola Davis, as well as #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich.

Patrick Leddin, PhD, has extensive hands‑on leadership experience: in the 82nd Airborne Division as an airborne ranger infantry officer and in the private sector as a senior business consultant at KPMG Consulting and FranklinCovey. He founded and built two successful companies and is a sought-​after global speaker, a top-​ranked podcast host, and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller The 5‑Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be. While on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, he served as director of the Program of Business Studies and led the Disruption Project, a multiyear study of success in the face of disruption. Disrupt Everything—and Win: Take Control of Your Future is the first book he’s coauthored with James Patterson.