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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
Sorting Your 5 Leadership Values
From 30 values, pick only 5 — very hard but reveals what truly matters.
Leadership
Hersey & Blanchard's Situational Leadership
Direction level must match employee's maturity on the task. 4 styles, pick right one per case.
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
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
Three Horizons: Balancing Today and Tomorrow
Allocate investment and leadership time across running today's business, scaling emerging ventures, and seeding tomorrow's.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Weekly Autonomy Test
5 questions every Friday: did reports decide without me? If not, why?
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
Healing Fractured Relationships in the Team
Two relationships on your team are strained, productivity erodes. Servant leader's task: aid healing, not ignore.
Leadership
Translating Strategy into a Frontline-Repeatable Line
Test your strategy with one question: can a frontline employee repeat it verbatim to a customer?
Leadership
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.
Leadership
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)?
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.
Administrative
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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.
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Diagnosing Your Reaction to Feedback
3 triggers reject valid feedback: Truth, Relationship, Identity. Know which fires in you.