The conversation you've been avoiding is costing you more than having it ever will. This field guide maps hard conversations across five phases - reading the situation, preparation, delivery, follow-through, and the specific conversations leaders avoid most: performance, boundaries, peer conflict, and telling your boss the truth. Each phase comes with coaching questions, a 48-hour experiment, and the places it shows up in real leadership: the annual review ambush, the script that backfires, the tears that end the conversation, the agreement that changes nothing. Narrated by the author. Includes a companion PDF - the diagnostic and the tools from the guide, laid out to work with a pen - available at therightaltitudebook.com. From the author of The Right Altitude.