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Leadership
Responding to the Innovator's Dilemma
Your current profitable products kill your future innovations. This exercise spins off an innovation unit before too late.
Leadership
Jobs-to-be-Done
Customer doesn't buy your product. They "hire" it for a job in their life. Discover the real job.
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.
Leadership
Pretotyping: Test Idea Before Building
Before building full product, test with "fake prototype" (10× simpler than MVP). Saves months + tens of thousands.
Leadership
Kill the Company: Self-Disruption Exercise
Gather team, ask: "How could you destroy our company in 5 yrs?". Answers = vulnerabilities to fix before a competitor does.
Leadership
Psychological Safety Specifically for Idea-Sharing
Design a "no immediate criticism" rule for the first 10 minutes of any brainstorm — raw ideas die fast if judged before they mature.
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
Innovation Portfolio Balance (Core/Adjacent/Transformational)
Distribute innovation investment roughly 70/20/10 across core (improving current), adjacent (nearby extension), transformational (future bet) — not all in one bucket.
Leadership
Rapid Prototyping Mindset for Leaders
Before approving any big idea, ask: what's the cheapest, fastest version testable within a week, instead of waiting for a full plan taking months?
Leadership
Saying Yes to a Bad-Seeming Idea to Test It Cheaply
When an idea seems intuitively bad but its test cost is low, approve it as a cheap experiment instead of rejecting it on intuition alone.
Leadership
Protecting an Innovation Team from Bureaucracy
As a leader, be the "shield" absorbing excessive approval requirements and reporting demands from a team that experiments and learns fast.
Leadership
Celebrating Smart Failures Publicly
Design a monthly public ritual celebrating the best "smart failure" (a hypothesis tested fast and cheap, proven wrong) — not every failure deserves celebration.
Professional
SBI Feedback Model
Deliver effective feedback in 3 parts (Situation—Behavior—Impact) so the other person hears you without defensiveness.
Professional
2-Way vs 1-Way Door
Classify decision: reversible (2-way door) or not (1-way)? Required speed differs.
Professional
Disagree and Commit
If you disagree and weren't convinced, state disagreement, then commit to execution as if it were yours.
Professional
5W1H Lead
Open any writing with Who-What-Where-When-Why-How in one paragraph.
Social
Broken Record for Repeated Pressure
Repeat the same refusal in the same words calmly, no matter how the other person reshapes the pressure.
Social
The Apology-Free No
Say no in three sentences: thanks, refusal, closing — with no "sorry" or justification.
Social
The Ready-No Sentence
Memorize one 7-word refusal sentence and rehearse it until it emerges automatically under pressure.
Social
No Without Apology
Say "no, I can't" — complete sentence. No explanation, no apology.
Administrative
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Silent Reading Meeting Start
Open the meeting with five minutes of silent reading of a written memo instead of slides.
Administrative
Five-Level Delegation Ladder
Delegate each task at one of five explicit levels instead of just "do it" or "don't".
Administrative
Non-Delegatable Task List
Explicitly write a list of 3-5 tasks you never delegate, and delegate everything else without hesitation.
Administrative
Delegate Outcome, Not Method
Describe the outcome in 3 sentences, let the employee pick the path.
Leadership
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Pre-Mortem: Imagining the Decision Failed
Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.
Leadership
Crafting a 25-Word Vision Statement
Compress the organization's aspiration into one sentence under 25 words that any employee can recite.
Leadership
BHAG: Big Hairy Audacious Goal
Choose a 10-25 year goal with a 50% probability that inspires both excitement and fear.
Leadership
Hedgehog Concept: Passion-Excellence-Engine Intersection
Find the intersection of what your team loves, what it can be best-in-world at, and what drives the highest return.
Leadership
Blue Ocean: The ERRC Strategy Canvas
Identify what to eliminate, reduce, raise, and create relative to your industry to build a competition-free market.
Leadership
Porter's Five Forces: Dissecting Industry Profitability
Analyze five competitive forces to understand why your industry is profitable (or not) and who captures the value.
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
Business Model Canvas: 9 Building Blocks on One Page
Map your business model in 9 boxes (customer, value, channels, relationships, revenue, resources, activities, partners, costs) on one page.
Leadership
Theory of Change: From Activity to Impact
Draw a logical chain: inputs → activities → outputs → outcomes → long-term impact.
Leadership
Moonshot Framing: 10x Not 10%
Instead of "How to improve 10%?", ask "How to achieve 10x?" to force the team to think from first principles.
Leadership
3-Scenario Planning
Craft three plausible futures (optimistic, base, hard) and test your decisions against each.
Leadership
70% Information Decision Rule (Bezos)
Don't wait for 90% information; major decisions are made at 70% — beyond that is costly delay.
Leadership
Devil's Advocate
Designate one person — or take the role yourself — as official critic before approving any major decision.
Leadership
Red-Team Exercise
Task a separate team with attacking your plan as if they were a smart adversary — before reality discovers it.
Leadership
Crafting a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)
Define one 10-25 year goal so audacious it scares you, uniting leadership around a single ambition.
Leadership
Annual Theme in Two Words
Pick two words that summarize the year's priority, replacing many goals with one shared focus.
Leadership
Defining the North Star Metric
Pick one metric that measures the value delivered to your customer, anchoring every decision to its success.
Leadership
Strategy on One Page
Summarize company strategy in 5 boxes on a single A4, capturing everything that matters.
Leadership
Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
Pick 1-3 goals max that create real difference, ignore the rest for 6 months.
Leadership
Stop-Doing List
Instead of a "start-doing" list, build a "stop-doing" list: what activities to cease to free energy for the most important?
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
Bank of 10 Powerful Questions
Memorize 10 coaching questions that open any conversation, replacing answers 80% of the time.
Leadership
Finding a Mentor Practically
Instead of "will you be my mentor?", request a specific 30-min meeting around one question.
Leadership
Feedforward Coaching
Instead of feedback on the past, ask reports for future suggestions — less defensiveness, higher application.
Leadership
Multiplier vs. Diminisher Diagnosis
Determine if you multiply your team's intelligence or drain it via 5 specific leader behaviors.
Leadership
Designing the Weekly 1-1
30 weekly minutes with each direct report, following 3 questions only: what, how, where stuck.
Leadership
Build SBI Feedback for Reports
Frame feedback in 3 sentences: Situation, Behavior, Impact — strips bias, refocuses on behavior.
Leadership
Radical Candor Matrix
A 2×2: "Care Personally × Challenge Directly". Know which quadrant you're in with each report.
Leadership
Stay Interview
30 min with a top performer, 5 questions on "why you stay and why you might leave" before they actually consider leaving.
Leadership
Mini 360 Feedback
Ask 8 people around you 3 questions: what do I do well? what should I stop? what would you stop me from doing if you saw?
Leadership
Diagnosing Your Reaction to Feedback
3 triggers reject valid feedback: Truth, Relationship, Identity. Know which fires in you.
Leadership
Trust Equation
Trust = (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) ÷ Self-Orientation. Rate each component with 5 people.
Leadership
Ideal Team Player Diagnosis
3 virtues (Humble, Hungry, Smart) for ideal team player. Diagnose your team against them.
Leadership
Designing 3 Team Rituals
Simple recurring rituals build culture more than statements. Design 3: daily, weekly, monthly.
Leadership
High-Performance Team Diagnosis (Katzenbach)
6 criteria: small number, complementary skills, common purpose, performance goals, work approach, mutual accountability.
Leadership
Culture Map for Global Teams (Meyer)
8 cultural scales (communicating, evaluating, persuading, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing, scheduling) to understand why your global team clashes.