Background to the BookSome History!So What Is Leadership, and What Do I Mean by Effective Choices?OK, So Why the Focus on Making Choices?So Why Do People Delay?Why Do We Have to Make Choices?What Is a Choice?A Working DefinitionSo Here We Are!What It Means to Be Blocked—The Individual LevelWhat It Means to Be Blocked—The Team LevelWhat It Means to Be Blocked—The Organizational LevelSome Assumptions of My OwnChoice HierarchyArea Known as “Conflict of Subordination”References and Further Reading