Publishes September 17, 2026
Built to Think
Build teams that solve problems, without waiting for permission — In the Age of AI
Everything waits for you. You’re the leader and the best problem solver, so every hard call comes back to your desk. Then it happens one level down, and the level below that.
Bottlenecks are the default in growing companies. Built to Think is the system for taking them apart: a seven-step problem-solving discipline, a way to settle who decides before the work begins, and an operating system for keeping it running. With the people you already have.
Paperback · Hardcover · eBook · Audio Coming Soon · Free companion workbook for book buyers.
Advance praise
“Leanne Terrace understands a challenge every growing leader eventually faces: if every important decision has to come through you, growth will always have a ceiling.”
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach; New York Times bestselling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
“Leanne Terrace has written the book I wish I had when I was still trying to be the one with all the answers.”
Garry Ridge
Chairman Emeritus, WD-40 Company; USA Today bestselling author of Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It
About the press
Calbeck Press
Calbeck Press publishes practical books on leadership and organizational performance — books for people who run companies and want something they can put to work on Monday morning, not a theory to admire and set down.
We publish few titles and we work them hard. Every book has to earn its place on a working desk.
Built to Think is our first, and it publishes in September 2026.
Title information
For booksellers, libraries and reviewers
- Title
- Built to Think
- Subtitle
- Build teams that solve problems, without waiting for permission — In the Age of AI
- Author
- Leanne Terrace
- Foreword
- Sharon Birkman, Chairman & CEO, Birkman International
- Publisher
- Calbeck Press · First edition
- Publication date
- September 17, 2026
- Formats
- Paperback · Hardcover · eBook · Audiobook
- ISBNs
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Paperback 979-8-9977743-0-1Hardcover 979-8-9977743-1-8eBook 979-8-9977743-2-5Audiobook 979-8-9977743-3-2
- Extent
- 12 chapters, approx. 70,000 words. Glossary, source notes, companion workbook.
- Category
- Business & Economics — Leadership · Management · Artificial Intelligence
- Book site
- builttothink.ai
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