
The Leaderment Codex - 13 Equations of Effective Power, Leadership, and Management
Hugh Gunn(Author)
Leaderment Press
Published on 15. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
438 pages
978-1-0676127-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
Most leadership books describe leadership as a mystery. This one treats it as a system.
The Leaderment Codex by Hugh Gunn presents 13 equations that explain how leadership, management, trust, influence, legitimacy, power, and effective power work in practice. Drawing on real experience from submarines, boardrooms, and business, Gunn shows why some leaders create progress while others create chaos, bureaucracy, drift, and failure.
This is not a book of vague inspiration or recycled business clichés. It is a practical and original framework that asks the questions most leadership writing avoids.Why do some leaders move systems while others only occupy positions?
Why does trust grow in one organisation and collapse in another?
Why can authority exist without results?
Why does power sometimes prove useless when it matters most?
Through examples drawn from politics, business, history, engineering, and high-stakes operational environments, Hugh Gunn reveals how variables such as conviction, congruence, humility, recognition, resources, autonomy, chaos, and administrative impotence combine to shape outcomes - and how they can be measured.
If you want to understand leadership beyond style, personality, and theatre, this book offers a new model. Once you see the equations, you will never unsee them.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
661 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0676127-0-2 (9781067612702)
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Person
Hugh Gunn is a British author and entrepreneur. His three careers - Royal Navy submarine engineering, IT executive leadership, and the automotive trades - span environments where the consequences of bad leadership are immediate and unambiguous. The Leaderment Codex is the result of years spent watching what makes leaders effective and what destroys organisations from within. He understands things by taking them apart and reassembling them. Lego was his favourite toy. As a student he could never memorise verbatim, but if he could disassemble an idea, he could usually it. The Codex is that habit applied to leadership.