The Floor: A Leadership Fable About Developing Leaders

By Gregory L. Vetter

THE FLOOR
A Leadership Fable About Developing Leaders

Danny Okafor used to inspect every case that left the brewery himself. Now he runs the whole company, and the habit that made him great is getting in his way.

Jalen Torres is the most talented floor manager Ridgeline has hired in years. Smart, driven, cares about the work, and does all of it himself, because he doesn't trust anyone else to do it right. He's Danny, five years ago. When a major expansion forces Danny to let Jalen's section run without him for the first time, the failure that follows has nothing to do with incompetent people and everything to do with a leader who never gave his people the room to become competent.

The Floor is the story of the hardest promotion in leadership: from the one who holds the standard to the one who builds people who hold it without you. It closes with the Four Stages of Growing Leaders - Model, Coach, Release, Sustain - the framework for an organization that doesn't depend on any single person. Including you.

Danny can't check every case anymore. Neither can you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9SXHTPM
• ISBN13: 9798188208769
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"