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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.
Psychological
Ten-Values Compass
Identify the living values you want guiding behavior across ten life domains.
Psychological
Leaves on a Stream
Place each thought on a leaf and watch it drift down a stream.
Psychological
Naming Thoughts: "My Mind Is Telling Me..."
Prefix every thought with "my mind is telling me..." to see you are not it.
Psychological
Observing Self: Who Notices?
Discover the constant "I" that has witnessed every changing thought and feeling.
Psychological
One Committed Action
Define one action today expressing a value, even if opposing thoughts show up.
Psychological
Willingness to Hold Discomfort
Open your hand to uncomfortable feelings instead of clenching — and watch them soften.
Psychological
Funeral Visualization
Hear what you wish would be said of you in 50 years to learn what matters today.
Psychological
Passengers on the Bus
You're the bus driver, your thoughts are noisy passengers — drive despite their voices.
Psychological
What Truly Matters?
Ask yourself the single question that distinguishes real decisions from distractors.
Psychological
Values vs Goals Sort
Goals end; values are perpetual direction — confusing them loses you.
Psychological
Passengers on the Bus
You're the bus driver. Hard thoughts are noisy passengers, but you stay on the road.
Psychological
Struggle Switch
Imagine an inner switch — when on, suffering doubles. Can you leave it off?
Psychological
Expansion vs Resistance
Open space for hard sensation in your body instead of suppressing or fleeing.
Psychological
Self as Context
You aren't your thoughts or feelings — you're the context they happen in.
Psychological
Willingness vs Willfulness
Willingness to accept reality as is, not willfulness rejecting it — subtle but powerful.
Psychological
Daily Values Compass
Morning: pick one value to live today. Evening: rate yourself.
Psychological
One Committed Action
No paralyzing "big plan" — one tangible action aligned with your value within 24 hrs.
Psychological
Funeral Visualization
At your funeral in 50 years, what do you wish people said? Start it today.
Psychological
Passing Thoughts Box
Thoughts aren't facts or orders — guests passing through.
Psychological
Physical Pain Sensation Acceptance
Physical pain doesn't obey resistance — it softens with conscious acceptance.
Psychological
Personal Values Tree
Values are roots, behaviors are leaves — draw your tree.
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.
Professional
Inverted Pyramid
In news writing: most important first, important next, extra last — reader gets it even if stops mid-way.
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
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
Rolling Quarterly Forecast
Instead of rigid annual budget: rolling 4-quarter forecast, refreshed quarterly.
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
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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.