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Leadership
McKinsey's 3 Horizons: Balanced Growth
Invest in 3 time horizons together: current (H1), next growth (H2), future innovation (H3). Neglecting any = slow death.
Parenting
Growth-Mindset Language for a Struggling Reader
Replace "you're not good at reading" with sentences linking difficulty to a temporary stage, not a fixed identity.
Parenting
Cultivating Growth Mindset
Praise your child's effort and strategy, not his intelligence or talent — Carol Dweck's classic.
Leadership
McKinsey Three Horizons
Balance investment across the core today, near growth, and long-range bets.
Administrative
Quarterly Delegation Level-Up
Every 90 days, raise each delegated task one rung on the delegation ladder.
Psychological
Alternative Self-Biography
Write your biography from a perspective you haven't — your strength, growth, achievement.
Parenting
Mistake Celebration
At dinner, each family member shares his biggest mistake of the day — normalizes failure and reinforces growth mindset.
Administrative
ICE Scoring for Initiatives
Score each initiative Impact x Confidence x Ease (1-10 each), execute by score order.
Administrative
ICE Scoring for Ideas
Score each idea on Impact, Confidence, Ease — pick the highest sum.
Administrative
Define the North Star Metric
One number summarizing your product's value to customer — every decision serves it.
Leadership
Three Horizons: Balancing Today and Tomorrow
Allocate investment and leadership time across running today's business, scaling emerging ventures, and seeding tomorrow's.
Leadership
Defining the North Star Metric
Pick one metric that measures the value delivered to your customer, anchoring every decision to its success.
Psychological
Letter from Past Self
Imagine self 10 yrs ago writing now — discover progress.
Professional
Stretch Project Volunteering
Each quarter, volunteer for a project outside your scope that earns new skill + visibility to new people.
Administrative
Career-Pathing Conversation
Ask every team member once a quarter: where do you want to be in two years? Then explicitly tie their current work to that path.
Leadership
Weekly Service Ritual in 1-on-1s
In every 1-on-1, ask: "How can I serve you this week? What's blocking you that I can remove?"
Leadership
CCL's 70-20-10 Development Model
Real development: 70% from hard assignments, 20% from relationships, 10% from training. Focus on the 70.
Leadership
Adaptive Leadership Retrospective
After leading a major adaptive change, ask 4 questions revealing your real impact as a leader, not just the project's surface success.
Parenting
Math Curiosity, Not Math Anxiety
Swap "you're bad at math" with "what's happening here?" — Boaler proves the math brain is built, not born.
Psychological
Rewriting Failure Story
The story you tell about failure shapes your feeling — rewrite with broader truth.
Psychological
Weekly New Strength Use
Each week, use one of your strengths in a new way.
Professional
GROW Coaching Question
Instead of solutions, ask GROW: Goal-Reality-Options-Will — let person craft his solution.
Professional
Net Worth Tracking
First Saturday monthly, compute: assets − debts = net worth. Track curve.
Social
Graduated Social Exposure
A 10-step ladder (from "smile at a passerby" to "deliver a speech") climbed weekly.
Social
Prep 1-on-1 With Manager
Prep your 1-on-1 with SBI + GROW: situation, behavior, impact, then open GROW questions.
Social
SBI Peer Feedback
Deliver specific SBI feedback to a peer within 48 hours of the event.
Social
Rescue a Dead Meeting
Turn a dead meeting productive with three GROW questions and one clear decision.
Social
Prep First Mentor Meeting
Prep your first mentor meeting with GROW + one single specific question.
Social
Powerful GROW Questions
Practice asking open GROW questions instead of giving advice in every mentoring meeting.
Social
Personal Board of Mentors
Design a 5-mentor board: technical, strategic, life, spiritual, peer.
Social
Short Group Mentoring
As mentor: organize a 60-min GROW group session for 4 people.
Social
Peer Mentorship
Form a peer duo/trio committing to monthly GROW.
Social
Create a Local "Third Place"
Establish a "third place" (not home nor work) for regular meet-ups — café, library, neighborhood club.
Leadership
GROW Model for Coaching Conversations
A 30-min conversation with a report: Goal, Reality, Options, Will — to grow their thinking instead of giving answers.
Leadership
Greenleaf's 10 Principles of Servant Leadership
Self-rate on Robert Greenleaf's 10 classic principles. Where's the gap between what you say and what you do?
Leadership
Obstacle Hunting: Weekly Audit to Remove Blockers
Dedicate one hour weekly to hunt obstacles trapping your team. The leader's duty, not privilege.
Leadership
Listening Before Advising: The 3:1 Rule
In every leadership conversation, listen 3 minutes for every 1 you speak. Advice after understanding, not before.
Leadership
Healing Fractured Relationships in the Team
Two relationships on your team are strained, productivity erodes. Servant leader's task: aid healing, not ignore.
Leadership
Sponsorship Over Mentorship
Mentorship gives advice. Sponsorship gives opportunities. Whom do you specifically sponsor in rooms they can't enter?
Leadership
Hersey & Blanchard's Situational Leadership
Direction level must match employee's maturity on the task. 4 styles, pick right one per case.
Leadership
Designing an Effective Stretch Assignment
Task 20% bigger than employee's current ability. Scares 30%, fails 30%, succeeds 40%. Difficult balance.
Leadership
Monthly Sponsorship List
Each month, identify 3 employees you'll name in rooms they don't enter. Sponsorship is system, not event.
Leadership
Succession Planning: Who Replaces You?
For each leadership role in your team (including yours), 2-3 ready successors. Otherwise, you're a prisoner of your role.
Leadership
Onboarding Your Manager (Not the Reverse)
When joining a new manager (or they join you), give them YOUR user manual. How you work best? What annoys? What you need?
Leadership
Weekly Status Memo to Your Manager
Every Friday, send manager 5-sentence memo: done, stuck, need. Saves them hours of meetings.
Leadership
Ask, Don't Tell: The Manage-Up Rule
When you need to influence your manager, don't tell them the solution. Ask a question leading them. Their ownership > yours.
Leadership
Conflict with Your Manager: DESC Model
Manager crossed a line or made an error affecting you. DESC: Describe, Express, Specify, Consequence. Each in a sentence.
Leadership
Exit Gracefully: Leaving Without Burning Bridges
You decided to leave. The last 30 days define your reputation for 10 years. This frame protects bridges.
Leadership
Coaching Through a Plateau
When someone's progress stalls despite real effort, look for what changed in their performance pattern, not just "less motivation".
Leadership
Self-Coaching Protocol
When no coach is available, write out answers to GROW questions about yourself, aloud or in writing — leaders need to coach themselves too.
Leadership
Killing Zombie Projects Gracefully
Identify projects no longer worth continuing but not yet officially cancelled, and end them with dignity, not silent postponement.
Leadership
Building Your Manager's Trust Incrementally
Request one small, measurable step of greater responsibility, deliver it with documented excellence, then request the next step — not one big leap at once.
Parenting
The Parenting Journal
A private journal where you log daily three notes: what I did well, what I regret, what I learned.
Parenting
GROW Model for Kids
Use the GROW coaching model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) to teach your child self-problem-solving.
Parenting
Specific Praise Over Generic
Instead of "great job," describe exactly what he did — "I love how you split the problem into two steps."
Parenting
Zone of Proximal Development Scaffold
Offer a challenge slightly harder than he can solo, and gradually less scaffolding.
Parenting
Relationship with Homework, Not the Homework
Don't sit and solve with your child — sit nearby supporting his relationship with work.
Parenting
Failure Celebration
Tell your child about your failures weekly — the biggest gift granting him "permission to fail."
Parenting
Homework Buddy, Not Homework Boss
Sit beside your child during homework, don't solve for him. Your presence = support, not completion.
Parenting
Chore Ownership
Each child "owns" a chore, not "helps you" — ownership differs from helping radically.