The Serving Leader is an engaging and moving story about an estranged son and his dying father who learn a new way to lead that transforms their lives and their work. Readers are pulled into the story through strong identification with the characters. Five simple leadership actions-upend the pyramid, raise the bar, blaze the trail, build on strength, and run to great purpose-provide leaders with powerful and practical tools they can use to prosper in their businesses and communities. The Serving Leader responds to the emergence of half-time crisis/opportunity among leaders. Increasingly, management and leadership level workers are acting upon their frustrations and disappointments at work by searching for more fulfilling and more significant work opportunities. The serving leader addresses these frustrations and disappointments in two powerful ways: it is an empathetic story that captures and validates this broadly shared experience, and it offers an action path readers can take to address these issues in their work and life.