Will Jones has spent decades leading through the hardest moments of organizational life and what he’s learned along the way might surprise you. Unlearn is the honest conversation he wishes someone had started with him sooner.

If you’ve been leading for a while, you’ve probably felt it: that quiet tension between the leadership advice you’ve been given and what actually works when the pressure is on.

Most leadership wisdom sounds good. Some of it is genuinely helpful. But some of it? It holds us back in ways we don’t always recognize until the cost becomes clear.

In Unlearn: Most of What I Learned About Leadership Was Wrong, Will Jones writes with the kind of honesty that only comes from lived experience. Drawing on decades of leading through real challenges, real budgets, real people, real consequences, Will walks through ten common leadership myths that many of us have quietly accepted as truth. Things like: being liked is the same as being trusted. That working harder is always the answer. That getting everyone on board before moving forward makes you a better leader.