François Nail

Infinite
Leadership

This is not another book about becoming a better leader. It is a book about becoming a better human — one whose leadership leaves something behind that outlives the title.

I choose to become a man of values
before I become a man of success.

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A book that is never finished · New edition every May

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Why I wrote this book

How do we lead
effectively?

For over a century, leadership has asked this one question in a hundred ways. Every answer assumed the same thing: that leadership serves success. I am proposing something different.

It is not leadership that moves from here to there, from problem to solution, from current state to desired future. Not leadership measured by quarterly results, stock prices, or the number of people following your vision.

Infinite leadership is the journey of becoming. A process without endpoint where every breach opens a new threshold, every wound reveals deeper capacity, every value conflict shows you the next direction of your growth.

What you will find here

Three faces of the same reality: feedback, trust, and values. Leadership isn't about what you do to others. It's about who you become in relationship to yourself.

You'll find three explorations that most leadership books avoid:

Feedback

A gift that requires pain.

Not a performance-management tool, but a relational act that risks everything. Where safety and love create the conditions for growth — and the gain genuinely lies in the pain we're too busy to face.

How do you create a culture of feedback? +
  • 01Balancing safety & love
  • 02Operational versus developmental feedback
  • 03Feedback is a gift
  • 04The gain is in the pain
  • 05The quadrature of trust
  • 06Techniques of feedback
  • 07Feelings, the kingpin of feedback
  • 08The 4 levels of feedback
  • 09Feedback agreement
  • 10Feedback or feedforward
  • 11The contradictory need for feedback
  • 12The culture of feedback needs moderating

Trust

The truth within us.

Not something built through competence and consistency, but a paradoxical force that lives on two sides of truth — inner and outer. Where trust breaks precisely so it can open to higher levels.

Trust is the truth within us +
  • 01Trust: the first step
  • 02Trust begins with self-trust
  • 03Trust lies on the two sides of truth
  • 04Trust the people, trust the process
  • 05Trust what?
  • 06Credit of trust
  • 07No rust in trust
  • 08The quadrature of trust
  • 09Trust the onion of vulnerability
  • 10The bind and bond of trust
  • 11Where trust ends, it also begins

Values

Vectors, not ideals.

Not aspirational ideals, but corrective forces. Not guiding principles we enforce, but vectors with direction. Where the work isn't achieving success but becoming aligned.

Values: why I run +
  • 01Values start with a no
  • 02Values to become
  • 03Values to save time
  • 04Humility
  • 05Freedom
  • 06Sincerity
  • 07Responsibility
  • 08Values are vectors
  • 09Integrity
  • 10Moral spine
  • 11Keep running

Why this matters now

We're living in increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times. Traditional leadership — clear goals, decisive plans, progress against milestones — still has its place. But it's not enough.
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Infinite Leadership

Facts and Features

A slow book, built to be returned to — not a set of quick fixes.

3
Main columns
34
Explorations
35
Years alongside leaders
12
Visuals and illustrations
156
Pages written in English
0
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Long-form essays, set with air and intention.

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François Nail

Meet the author

François Nail

I have spent 35 years alongside leaders — first as an executive search consultant and founder of my own recruitment boutique, then as an executive coach and moderator of CEO Round Table.

A space for sincere, heartfelt conversation among leaders. That space has been my laboratory for understanding what leadership truly demands of a human being.

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FAQ

Common questions

What language is the book written in? +

I wrote this book in English, not my native French. This was deliberate. Writing in a second language limits my vocabulary, which prevents me from hiding behind eloquence. Every word here is chosen because I couldn't find a fancier one that meant the same thing. The simplicity is intentional. So is the imperfection.

When will the book ship? +

Infinite Leadership launches in October 2026. Pre-orders ship around the launch, so a copy ordered during the pre-order window (June to September) goes out as soon as the book is printed. You'll receive the exact dispatch date by email once it is confirmed.

Can I order with international shipping? +

Yes. The book ships abroad. Contact us and we'll let you know the shipping cost to your country.

Are you planning further volumes? +

Yes. This is an infinite book by design. Every May a new edition appears, revised and expanded with fresh observations from real leadership journeys. New columns — on emotions and forgiveness — are already taking shape. The book grows the way leadership does, without a final line.