The Framework Behind The Index

The Story Tax — First Edition book cover

The Story Tax

The Hidden Tax Your Leadership Story
Is Charging Your Company

What It Is

A diagnostic and a system.

The diagnostic tells you what your behavioral patterns are costing your organization — in hours, in dollars, in the capability your team is not developing because you haven't let them.

The system tells you what to do with that number in ninety days.

Who It's For

You run something. A company, a function, a portfolio. You have suspected for years that something in the way you work is costing more than it should.

You had no instrument.

This is the instrument.

What the Data Showed

Seven leaders. One targeted behavioral change. Ninety days.

12 to 25 points dropped from their Story Tax Index score.

3 to 5 hours returned to their week.

Every one of them.

The leaders who got their score and changed nothing — didn't move.

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First Edition · 2026 · Reserve early access

Hardcover · ISBN 979-8-9953625-2-4

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