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Leadership
Leadership Identity Statement
Complete "I'm a leader who…" 7 times without mentioning your job title. Identity is deeper than role.
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.
Leadership
Transparency About Mistakes as a Leader
Admit your leadership mistake to your team within 48 hours of discovering it — delay is later read as an attempt to hide it, not forgetfulness.
Leadership
Written vs. Verbal Channel Selection for Leaders
Before sending any leadership message, ask: does this content need a live tone of voice, or the precision of written text?
Leadership
Mini Pre-Mortem for Leaders
15 min before a big decision: imagine it failed a year later, list 5 likely causes with mitigations.
Leadership
Sorting Your 5 Leadership Values
From 30 values, pick only 5 — very hard but reveals what truly matters.
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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?
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Hersey & Blanchard's Situational Leadership
Direction level must match employee's maturity on the task. 4 styles, pick right one per case.
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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?
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Storytelling with Data for Leaders
Turn one important number into a 3-act story (situation, turn, outcome) instead of a slide crowded with figures.
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Three Horizons: Balancing Today and Tomorrow
Allocate investment and leadership time across running today's business, scaling emerging ventures, and seeding tomorrow's.
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Minto Pyramid for Communication
Conclusion first, 3 arguments, evidence per argument. Leaders speak from top, not foundation.
Leadership
Silent Presence Training
In a meeting, learn to listen 80% and speak 20%. Leader's authority grows in silence, not words.
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
Onboarding a New Team Member: 30-60-90 Day Plan
Design a 3-phase leadership onboarding plan: Learn (30) → Contribute (60) → Own (90) — instead of leaving the new member to "figure it out alone".
Leadership
Team Celebration Design (Not Just Problem-Solving)
Design a deliberate celebration after a real achievement, with the same effort you invest in problem-solving meetings — celebration is a leadership skill to practice.
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
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?
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Diagnosing Team Stage with Tuckman Model
Identify which of four stages your team sits in today, and adapt your leadership style accordingly instead of using one fixed approach.
Leadership
Imagined Advisory Board
Convene a mental meeting with 5 imaginary experts before any major leadership decision.
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
Multiplier vs. Diminisher Diagnosis
Determine if you multiply your team's intelligence or drain it via 5 specific leader behaviors.
Leadership
Context, Not Control (Netflix)
Instead of directing reports, give them full context to decide confidently themselves. You do this as leader.
Leadership
Decision Journal
Per big leadership decision: your mental state, info, prediction, actual outcome. Learn from mistakes.
Leadership
Distinguishing Technical from Adaptive Challenges
Classify your problem: technical (known solution) or adaptive (requires shifting minds and values)? Confusing them is leadership failure #1.
Leadership
Interrupting Microaggressions
A small "innocent" comment wounds an employee. Your job as leader: interrupt immediately, respectfully, without trial.
Leadership
Language of Inclusion: 10 Daily Swaps
Your small leader words exclude or include. 10 simple swaps shift your team's culture in 60 days.
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
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
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
Strategy on One Page
Summarize company strategy in 5 boxes on a single A4, capturing everything that matters.
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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
Radical Candor Matrix
A 2×2: "Care Personally × Challenge Directly". Know which quadrant you're in with each report.
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Seven Levels of Delegation
Instead of "delegate or not", define precise level: 1 (Tell) to 7 (Delegate fully).
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Weekly Autonomy Test
5 questions every Friday: did reports decide without me? If not, why?
Leadership
The 90-Day Plan (Watkins)
In transition to a new role: 30 days listen, 30 plan, 30 execute. Avoid "prove myself immediately" trap.
Leadership
Regulating Distress: Not Too Low, Not Too High
Change needs enough pressure for people to move, but not so high they crack. Be your team's thermostat.
Leadership
Getting on the Balcony: Seeing Dynamics
Mentally exit the meeting and look at it from above. What's really happening, beyond what's being said?
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Calm Broadcast: Leading Emotions in Crisis
In crisis, your emotions infect the team. Your calm = their stability. This trains calm under pressure.
Leadership
Message Discipline: 3 Points No More
In crisis, only 3 points per message. Audience can't absorb more. Repetition builds understanding.
Leadership
Translating Strategy into a Frontline-Repeatable Line
Test your strategy with one question: can a frontline employee repeat it verbatim to a customer?
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Strategic Silence in Major Announcements
After any impactful announcement, deliberately pause 24-48 hours before extra detail — let people absorb before you flood them with more talk.
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Handling a Toxic High-Performer
When a member delivers excellent results but destroys team morale, separate performance from behavior via a clear standard and a direct honest conversation.
Leadership
Distinguishing Technical vs. Adaptive Challenges
Before solving any problem, ask: do we need an expert with a ready answer (technical), or do the people themselves need to change (adaptive)?
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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.
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Auditing Who Speaks in Meetings
Track for three consecutive meetings: who spoke, for how long, and how often they were interrupted — hidden patterns show in numbers, not impressions.
Leadership
The "Front Page Test" for Decisions
Before any sensitive decision, ask: if published with full detail on tomorrow's front page, would I defend it with pride or look for an exit?
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SBI Feedback Model
Deliver effective feedback in 3 parts (Situation—Behavior—Impact) so the other person hears you without defensiveness.
Professional
Pre-Meeting Breath
3 deep breaths before any meeting — full presence vs reactive.
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
SBI Model
Phrase every feedback in 3 sentences: situation, specific behavior, impact — no interpretation.
Professional
5W1H Lead
Open any writing with Who-What-Where-When-Why-How in one paragraph.
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First 90-Day Plan
In new role, listen 30 days, plan 30, execute 30 — don't reverse order.
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Share Your Failure Story First
To open trust in a new team, share your failure first — others will open up.