The Network

A leadership fable about the transformative power of genuine attention

In The Network: A Leadership Fable About Making People Feel Seen, keynote speaker and executive coach Antonio Neves delivers a business fable for an era of workplace disconnection. When a top-market television executive producer loses everything he built, five days with an unassuming small-market television news director teach him that attention is the most valuable resource a leader can give.

The Network integrates the extractable five principles woven into the narrative-Believe, Commit, Find the Edge, Carry the Cost, Find Your Allies-directly into the narrative, so readers absorb each principle through story rather than instruction. The book's structure naturally supports corporate training and coaching applications. A downloadable discussion guide is available at . With a foreword by Jon Gordon, the book confronts what no algorithm can manufacture: the experience of being genuinely seen.

Readers will also find:

• A realistic protagonist whose resistance to transformation mirrors how real professionals confront their own leadership blind spots
• A mentor character whose practice grew from personal failure, offering an honest model for building trust through consistent attention
• The 5 principles presented as both narrative experience and standalone corporate training framework with a discussion guide
• A story set in a a small-market newsroom before the age of algorithms that provides structural contrast to today's algorithm-driven workplace and its epidemic of disconnection
• Practical takeaways on building human infrastructure-the network of people who saw you before you saw yourself

The Network speaks directly to mid-career professionals navigating disengagement and isolation, as well as to L&D leaders, HR executives, and managers seeking to rebuild genuine human connection within their organizations. It reframes leadership around the one resource no technology can replicate: paying real attention to the people in front of you.