A book I’m writing in the open · you read it first · Q1 2027

Vedran Perić · a book, written in the open

Your Next Exponential Leap.

The Art & Science of Exponential Thriving. A book you journey through, and a mirror you grow from.

I burned out at the top of my game, walked away at 46, and spent the years since finding out why good leaders stall and how the rare ones don’t. This is that book. The climb within, the drive without, told as an adventure, with you as the hero. You are not broken. You’ve just forgotten.

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Early readers · Q1 2027~137 pages, short chapters24 activations as chaptersWritten with Sage™, my AIScience & arts
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Your Next Exponential Leap.The Art & Science of Exponential ThrivingWorking cover: the leader at the mountain, the arrow, fluorescent jacket.

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What it’s about

What leaders want most is not more. It’s inner freedom.

Not a leadership book with four hundred pages of frameworks. A short, cinematic one, for people who did everything right and still hit the wall: founders, executives, coaches, athletes, anyone in a transition they didn’t plan. You know the feeling. Busier than ever, less alive than ever, and no idea why.

Two adventures. The climb within: seven intelligences, mind, emotions, soul, body, leadership, relationships and community, nature, woken up one at a time, until the zero point within is yours. The drive without: your brand and your engine, built and scaled with science, systems and a team of humans and AI. Every chapter ends in one move you can make before dinner.

Yes, there are two formulas. No, you don’t need the math. T = I² × E² − 1 within, X = B² × R² − 1 without. They are a way of seeing where your next point is worth most, and a way of catching yourself when you grind on the wrong side. Play with them below.

From survival or plateau to flow, impact and legacy. In weeks, not years. Results vary.
Side effects
  • You will write your vision, mission and story. Out loud. People will hear it.
  • One chapter measures you. The scan is honest, not flattering.
  • Reported so far: sudden clarity, more energy, decisions that stick, teams that lift 30 to 80% in weeks, and a strange calm. Results vary.
Play with the formulas

Both squared. Minus one. That’s the leap.

Try it. Slide your inner freedom and your action, your brand and your reach. Watch where the next point is worth most. Spoiler: it is your weaker side, every time. I was the bottleneck; the formula knew before I did.

The inner leap
T = I2 × E2 − 1
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SurvivalStabilityFlowImpactLegacy
Next best move—The weaker side is the bottleneck. Lift it first.
The external formula
X = B2 × R2 − 1
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SurvivalStabilityFlowImpactLegacy
Next best move—A sharp brand with small reach beats a loud one with none.
Where I am with it

Honest numbers.

The system is done and live, used every week. The book is being rewritten on top of it, in a voice I finally like. Three drafts came before; the best of them survives.

Q1 2027 opens in — days
The system24 activations, two formulas, the scan, the tools, all live100%
StructureThree parts, 24 chapters, the reader as hero100%
The scienceFlow as a trait, adult development, contemplative psychology; the research paper is written90%
First-draft material58,000 words in earlier drafts: principles, cases, lineage60%
Rewrite in the finished voiceShort, cinematic chapters on the 24 activations15%
StoriesOne personal story and one mentor story per activation10%
CoverDirection set; artwork to come40%
Part I · The climb

Thrive within.

Seven intelligences, one a chapter. Foundations.

  1. 01Inner Compass · Minddrafted
  2. 02Purpose · Emotionsmaterial
  3. 03Life Mission · Soulmaterial
  4. 04Wellness · Bodymaterial
  5. 05Exponential Leadershipmaterial
  6. 06Community · Relationshipsmaterial
  7. 07Contribution · Natureto write
Part II · Above the clouds

The mastery.

Five advanced activations. Advanced.

  1. 08Exponential Mindmaterial
  2. 09Emotional Masteryto write
  3. 10Unique Giftsto write
  4. 11Flowdrafted
  5. 12Systemsmaterial
Part III · The drive

Scale without.

Brand and engine, Build then Scale. Twelve activations.

  1. 01Brand Compassmaterial
  2. 02Voice & Storymaterial
  3. 03Pitchmaterial
  4. 04–07Offer, Publish, Profile, Partnershipto write
  5. 08–12Team, Systems, Campaigns, Excellence, Ecosystemto write
Draft one · 2024–25The Principles of Exponential Leadership. 254 pages, 58,000 words, nine chapters. Complete, in the old frame.Carries the lineage, the science, the case studies.
Draft two · Sep 2025Exponential Leadership: 10 Proven Playbooks. 40 pages, the spine and the first chapters.The Exponential Tsunami, the Exponentials, the engine.
Now · 2026Your Next Exponential Leap. Rebuilt on the finished 137 Method™ and the Exponential Scaling Method. 24 chapters, two formulas, stories per activation.Co-written with the Publicist and Sage™, our AI.
Lines people underline · add yours
“You are not broken. You’ve just forgotten.”
The opening
“I was the bottleneck. Before I could elevate their performance, I had to elevate my own.”
Origins
“We don’t rise to the level of the wave. We fall to the level of our system. Build the right system, and the wave carries you.”
The Exponentials
“Zero point within. Exponential without.”
The two adventures
Read a bit · Origins

The wake-up call.

Leave a note on any paragraph. It comes to me, and nowhere else.

I started as a young leader in a global U.S. tech firm, leading high-performing teams in high-pressure environments. For years, we did well: strong vision, high motivation, a top-ranked culture. I became obsessed with leadership and team performance. Read the books. Got my Master’s in Leadership & Organizational Studies. Worked with world-class mentors. Earned the certifications, attended every top leadership program I could find. I was all in.

Then, after 17 years, everything changed. Performance dropped. I burned out. Engagement plummeted. The energy and the team flow? Gone. And the worst part: I had no idea why.

I tried everything, motivational tactics, cutting-edge leadership strategies. Nothing worked. So, out of frustration, I built something new: a scorecard that measures all five dimensions of performance, not just the ones that show up in a quarterly review. And for the first time, I saw the truth, clear as black and white. Work ethic? Strong. Vision, leadership and alignment? Weak. No wonder we hit a wall.

Then it hit me. My team’s struggles were a direct reflection of my own misalignment. I was the bottleneck.

I had a secure, high-paying job at a top U.S. company. A family, three kids, a mortgage. But deep down I knew I wasn’t on the right path anymore. So, at 46, I made one of the boldest decisions of my life. I walked away. Became an entrepreneur overnight. Risked everything to build something bigger.

Sometimes everything looks fine on the outside. But deep down, you know: it’s time for a change. And when that moment comes, you won’t just need motivation. You’ll need clear data on where you are, clinical precision on what’s working and what isn’t, and a system that delivers real results and makes them last.

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Why I trust it

Thirty years, measured.

Half of this book stands on a research paper I wrote for the Flow Research Collective: flow can become a trait, not a lucky day. The other half stands on teams I built and measured for thirty years, including a basketball dynasty whose coach told me, “the mental is the physical, it’s a 4-to-1 equation.” I believe the science. I trust the locker room more.

Enhanced Flow as an Altered TraitThe paper · Flow Research Collective · 2021

Can flow be permanent? Are there stages? How does an altered state become a stable trait? The answer runs through Kegan, Wilber, Brown and the three turnings of Indo-Tibetan contemplative psychology, and it is the backbone of the 137 Method™. Early readers can ask for it.

Vedran Perić
Who’s writing

Vedran Perić

Founder · Coach · Innovator. Seventeen years leading high-performing teams at a Boston technology company. A Master’s in Leadership & Organizational Studies, a Flow Trainer certification with the Flow Research Collective, three decades in the Indo-Tibetan contemplative lineages under teachers he names in the book. He built the 137 Method™ and the Exponential Scaling Method, and runs Exponential Accelerator with a team of AI. Michigan, three kids, mountains and fast cars, in equal measure.

Read a bit · The Exponentials

Who thrives, and why.

Imagine standing on the shore, the tide pulling back further than usual. The horizon looks calm, but deep down you sense something massive is building. That’s what exponential change feels like.

Technology, markets and society are accelerating like never before. AI adoption, global interconnection, shifting demographics and climate pressures are colliding at once. The external world is moving exponentially, but most leaders are still operating with linear systems. That’s the paradox of modern leadership. Leaders are busier than ever, working harder than ever, yet often less effective. Meetings pile up. Burnout climbs. Trust erodes. Teams stall.

Some leaders get stuck in survival mode: reactive, overwhelmed, constantly firefighting. Others stall on a plateau: running harder but going nowhere. And yet, in the middle of this same wave, a small fraction thrive. The Exponentials. They don’t fight the tide. They surf it.

You’ve seen them. In sports, the dynasties that sustain dominance year after year, long after others burn out. In business, founders who scale from a garage to a global platform, not because they worked hundred-hour weeks, but because they mastered systems of clarity, flow and resilience. In elite teams that perform under impossible conditions. In the rare coaches and entrepreneurs who build businesses and lives that thrive without sacrificing health, family or meaning.

It isn’t raw effort. Plenty of leaders grind. It isn’t raw talent. Plenty of leaders are brilliant and still stall. The Exponentials integrate what others fragment.

They operate across every intelligence at once. They follow systems that keep them aligned when the storm is at its worst. Dynasties protect recovery and coherence as fiercely as they practice execution. Entrepreneurs anchor vision and story before they scale. Elite teams rehearse resilience and flow until it is automatic. The insight is simple and profound: Exponentials compound clarity, energy and trust, while others fragment and stall.

For early readers · The Gladiators

Down twenty, and the system showed up.

I remember working with legendary basketball coach Don Beck, a proven winner with 1,300-plus career victories across Europe, Asia and America. In the world of basketball, he’s an institution. But this time he faced a completely new challenge: thirteen new players, a brand-new coaching staff, no shared history, no chemistry, no foundation. “It was like a clean slate,” he told me. “Nobody knew each other. Nobody knew how we practiced, how we played, what the culture was.”

And it showed. Early in the season, performance was inconsistent. The team lacked cohesion. The energy was off. So in September 2023 we partnered with the Trier Gladiators and launched the Exponential Accelerator. First move? Measure everything. Team Performance Index: 4.8. Way below optimal. Physical ability? Strong. Tactics? On point. Mental, emotional and cultural alignment? Weak. For the first time, instead of relying on hunches, we had real data.

“The mental is the physical,” the coach said. “It’s a 4-to-1 equation.”

September, a team vision workshop. October, goal alignment. November, story and narrative, a shared mission. March, the Switch playbook for focus and execution under pressure. At first, some players resisted. They thought mindset and culture were distractions. Then the shift happened. “Within weeks, even the biggest skeptics were coming to me saying, oh wait, I get it. I see why we’re doing this. This actually works.”

A 20-game win streak. A first-place finish, after being predicted to finish eighth or ninth. The index from 4.8 to 8.7 by May. And the game he remembers most: down twenty points in a game that was lost, and the team came back, together. “That was when I saw it. This system works. This is real.” Coach of the Year, at 71. Winning was a side effect. Results vary.

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Six things I keep changing my mind about.

The title.One is the promise, one is the method.
The reader as hero.The chapters are written as an adventure: a climb, then a drive.
Formulas in a book.T = I² × E² − 1 and X = B² × R² − 1 run through it.
Stories per activation.One personal story and one mentor story per chapter, 24 pairs.
Short chapters.About 137 pages you can read in ten-minute sittings and act on today, or 250 pages that go deep, like the first draft?
The AI co-writer.Sage™, our AI, works beside the Publicist on this book and reads every note you leave here.
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