Summarize company strategy in 5 boxes on a single A4, capturing everything that matters.

Test your strategy with one question: can a frontline employee repeat it verbatim to a customer?

Instead of fighting in a red ocean (crowded market), create a blue ocean (new market, no competition).

Beyond generic "board game nights" — precisely match game complexity to your child's current capacity for waiting and planning.

Open higher than expected — becomes anchor for negotiation.

Instead of direct "no", say "how can I do that?" — opponent solves your problem.

Identify what to eliminate, reduce, raise, and create relative to your industry to build a competition-free market.

General MOOC completion = 5-15%. To be a completer: split, commit, publish, apply.

Each stakeholder: place in quadrant (high/low power × high/low interest) — each quadrant has strategy.

Praise your child's effort and strategy, not his intelligence or talent — Carol Dweck's classic.

Beyond "good job": a specific 3-part formula linking praise to the actual strategy used.

Each activity in your value chain is at a different evolution stage. The map reveals where to invest, where to exit.

Map your career strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in 30 minutes — and see your next move clearly.

Apply SWOT framework to your current career in 30 minutes.

Who influences whom? — draw network to know "who talks to whom to shift decision".

Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.

Compress the organization's aspiration into one sentence under 25 words that any employee can recite.

Choose a 10-25 year goal with a 50% probability that inspires both excitement and fear.

Find the intersection of what your team loves, what it can be best-in-world at, and what drives the highest return.

Analyze five competitive forces to understand why your industry is profitable (or not) and who captures the value.

Scan 6 external factors (political, economic, social, technological, environmental, legal) to spot opportunities and threats.

Allocate investment and leadership time across running today's business, scaling emerging ventures, and seeding tomorrow's.

Map your business model in 9 boxes (customer, value, channels, relationships, revenue, resources, activities, partners, costs) on one page.

Draw a logical chain: inputs → activities → outputs → outcomes → long-term impact.

Instead of "How to improve 10%?", ask "How to achieve 10x?" to force the team to think from first principles.

Craft three plausible futures (optimistic, base, hard) and test your decisions against each.

Sketch your business model on nine boxes on a single page to find gaps before launch.

Identify what protects your venture from competitors for five years — or build a moat if none exists.

Balance investment across the core today, near growth, and long-range bets.

Define one 10-25 year goal so audacious it scares you, uniting leadership around a single ambition.

Pick two words that summarize the year's priority, replacing many goals with one shared focus.

Pick one metric that measures the value delivered to your customer, anchoring every decision to its success.

Pick 1-3 goals max that create real difference, ignore the rest for 6 months.

Instead of a "start-doing" list, build a "stop-doing" list: what activities to cease to free energy for the most important?

Your industry isn't just war on competitors. 5 forces determine your profit. Ignoring = slow bankruptcy.

True competitive advantage comes from only 7 powers. Which does your company own? Which can you build?

Instead of predicting one future, write 4 radically different scenarios. Your plan survives all four.

Before labeling someone "difficult", diagnose the specific type: are they anxious, ignored, or genuinely conflicted in interest?

Two days off-site designed to recharge the team and align them on the next year.

An audience watches you silently; a community interacts with each other even without you — assess which you're actually building and which serves your goal.

Define how to exit failed negotiation without burning bridges.

Before asking a high-context colleague for something, reshape your direct ask into a polite hint.

Draw the org chart you'd want to hit your upcoming goals, then compare it to what actually exists today.

Before presenting your proposal in the formal meeting, win 2-3 influencers individually — don't surprise them with a public vote.

After any impactful announcement, deliberately pause 24-48 hours before extra detail — let people absorb before you flood them with more talk.

Before sending any leadership message, ask: does this content need a live tone of voice, or the precision of written text?

Distribute innovation investment roughly 70/20/10 across core (improving current), adjacent (nearby extension), transformational (future bet) — not all in one bucket.

LinkedIn measured by "who contacted with opportunity", not followers or likes.

Before any post, ask: "am I writing this because I believe it, or because I think the algorithm favors it?" — constant tension drains content of its honesty.

Dedicate one day to producing two weeks of content in advance, instead of the daily pressure to find an idea and post it the same day.

Consciously decide which platform is purely professional, which is personal, and which is deliberately mixed — instead of unintentional mixing that harms both.

Instead of stock-picking, invest monthly in low-fee index fund and forget it.

Place every stakeholder in one of four boxes: high-power/high-interest gets close management, high-power/low-interest gets kept satisfied.

Dedicate one hour weekly to hunt obstacles trapping your team. The leader's duty, not privilege.

1,000 who trust you > 100,000 who follow. Build trust, numbers follow.