When Are You Going To Be Done?

Every leader has asked the question. Most have never gotten a real answer.

When are you going to be done?

After thirty-five years turning around failing operations across seven industries — aerospace, shipbuilding, rail, oil and gas, and more — Christine Marletti learned the hard way that this question isn't the problem. It's a symptom. Ask it inside a broken system, and you get excuses, silence, and people who were never taught to answer. Ask it inside the right system, and people start answering before you finish the question.

This book is that system: five pillars — Expectations, Capability, Resources, Initiative, and Feedback — built not in a classroom, but on shop floors, shipyards, and factory lines where the stakes were real and the excuses ran out.

What's inside:

• The Five Pillars framework, tested across thirty-five years and a dozen industries
• The Seven Levels of Initiative — why your team already operates at full autonomy everywhere except at work
• The 6 Ms diagnostic for separating system failures from real performance problems
• True, unpolished stories from real factory floors — no case-study language, no villains

No jargon. No theory. Just the system that turns "when are you going to be done" from an accusation into an easy question with an honest answer.