Leadership

A strategy for motivating soldiers to risk their lives

Create intensely strong cultures with fervently held ideology, rigorous indoctrination, tightness of fit, and a sense of elitism that preserves the core

Build an organization that can prosper far beyond the presence of any single leader and through multiple product life cycles

Making small, reversible decisions that move toward the goal without over-committing, allowing continuous assessment and adjustment as new information emerges

Building trust and influence in both directions — empowering subordinates through decentralized command while earning credibility with superiors through performance and relationship capital

Owning everything in your world — taking complete responsibility for all outcomes, including those caused by others, and preemptively preventing problems through ownership before they occur

Balancing the opposing forces that pull leaders in contradictory directions — every leadership trait taken to an extreme becomes a liability

Physically and mentally stepping back from the chaos to gain the perspective needed to lead effectively and make better decisions

Taking initiative and decisive action rather than waiting for conditions to be perfect or for someone else to lead

Only secure leaders give power to others

A leader's potential is determined by those closest to them

Leaders add value by serving others

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

Leadership develops daily, not in a day

The true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness

A real-time feedback system where meeting participants continuously rate each other's attributes, enabling believability-weighted collective decision making

The best ideas win regardless of who has them, through radical truth, radical transparency, and believability-weighted decision making

Create an environment of complete honesty and openness where issues are surfaced and dealt with directly

A systematic process for assessing, restructuring, and aligning inherited teams during leadership transitions

Five essential dialogue threads with your new boss that lay the foundation for a productive working relationship

Building credibility and momentum through strategically chosen quick victories that serve long-term goals

A structured ten-task system for accelerating leadership transitions and reaching the break-even point faster

Stop moving pieces on the board and start tending the ecosystem that allows your teams to flourish

Push decision-making authority to the people closest to the problem, armed with shared consciousness

Pump systemic understanding throughout the organization so everyone sees the whole board, not just their own square

Sixteen contrasting pairs of self-protective armor and courageous leadership behaviors that distinguish defensive from wholehearted leading

Seven specific behaviors that form the anatomy of trust, turning a vague concept into an actionable inventory for teams and individuals

Leaning into discomfort rather than walking away from it as the foundational skill of courageous leadership

A cascading rhythm of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings that serves as the heartbeat of the organization.

Shift organizational focus from the absence of failure to the pursuit of greatness

Pause, vocalize, and gesture before acting to eliminate automatic errors and build team resilience

Ten execution habits that dramatically increase profitability and reduce the time it takes to manage the business.

Three interdependent pillars for safely pushing decision-making authority down through an organization

Replace permission-seeking with 'I intend to...' to transform passive followers into active leaders

Replace the leader-follower hierarchy with distributed leadership where everyone acts as a leader

How Multipliers extract and extend 2X more capability from their people than Diminishers

How well-intentioned leaders unknowingly shut down the intelligence around them

Five leadership disciplines that extract and multiply the intelligence in organizations

Two types of leaders and their dramatically different impact on team intelligence and capability

Increase psychological safety by managing Tribe, Expectation, Rank, and Autonomy

Seven coaching questions that help you say less, ask more, and lead better

Training is the boss's job because only two things improve performance: motivation and training

The single most important form of task-relevant feedback a manager can provide

The principal way a supervisor-subordinate relationship is maintained and the highest-leverage meeting format

Adjust your management style based on how experienced each subordinate is with the specific task at hand

A manager's output equals the output of his organization plus the neighboring organizations under his influence

Dedicate structured autonomous time for creative exploration to unlock innovation and engagement

Match challenge to capability to unlock flow states and accelerate the path to mastery

Autonomy, mastery, and purpose are the three nutrients that power high performance and deep satisfaction