LEADERSHIP IS RISING ABOVE YOUR NATURAL INSTINCTS Leadership Is Overcoming the Natural is an attempt to see into the depths of the role of the leader, which is a fundamental and ancient element of our humanity. Authors Joe Judge and Michael D. Merrill, MD, outline the process of continually becoming your better self. In their view, becoming a leader is a decision, and not necessarily the fulfillment of a natural inclination or a promotion. The hardest part about that decision is that it will change your life, and there are things, and maybe even people, that you will need to leave behind. This must-read work distills their combined decades of wisdom and experience into 52 powerful maxims for any leader–or aspiring leader–to embrace.