Finalist
Book Title:Invisible Leadership: How to design systems that create high‑performance habits
Author:Carlos Donato Da Silva
Published:2026
How is your book helping others?
Invisible Leadership helps professionals eliminate the hidden, daily friction that causes workplace burnout and costly operational rework.Instead of relying on exhausting motivational speeches, this book shows leaders how to embed a healthy, high-performance culture directly into their ERP systems (like SAP or Dynamics). It helps companies save money and time by replacing frustrating "Shadow IT"—like parallel Excel sheets—with logical, frictionless workflows.
By teaching managers to act as "Choice Architects," the book dramatically reduces employee stress. Using new metrics introduced in the book (ICE and CRR), leaders can design smart defaults and system rules that make doing the right thing the path of least resistance. Ultimately, it helps organizations build a coherent, stress-free environment where people can succeed and high performance becomes a natural habit, rather than a daily struggle.