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Distilled notes from leadership and management books.
Choose a concept, then work through an example
9 guides in this section. Each article states its audience and assumptions, explains specialized terms, and gives a worked example or practical exercise.
Technical topics distinguish toy models from product behavior. Leadership topics distinguish context-dependent frameworks from evidence and personal claims.
9 guides
Practice discussing consequential disagreement through facts, tentative interpretations, and shared understanding.
Dialogue and the STATE framework · SBI feedback and observable behavior · Psychological safety and constructive conflict · Stakeholders and alignment · Frameworks versus empirical evidenceUse organizational-system models to choose workload and capacity interventions without treating heuristics as universal rules.
Team states as an organizational heuristic · Ownership, accountability, and decision rights · Outputs, outcomes, and measurement · Opportunity cost and prioritization · Coaching, delegation, and expectationsUse a team's trust, debate, commitment, accountability, and results as discussion prompts rather than a diagnosis.
Five dysfunctions as a team framework · Psychological safety and constructive conflict · Ownership, accountability, and decision rights · Outputs, outcomes, and measurement · Frameworks versus empirical evidenceApply service-oriented leadership while distinguishing a practical principle from simplified biological explanations.
Circle of Safety as a leadership principle · Psychological safety and constructive conflict · Coaching, delegation, and expectations · Outputs, outcomes, and measurement · Frameworks versus empirical evidenceUnderstand how mentoring, technical leadership, and management responsibilities change with scope.
Management scope and technical leadership · Coaching, delegation, and expectations · Ownership, accountability, and decision rights · Outputs, outcomes, and measurement · Stakeholders and alignmentUse learning-oriented beliefs with effective strategies and support without blaming outcomes on attitude alone.
Growth mindset as a learning belief · Coaching, delegation, and expectations · SBI feedback and observable behavior · Frameworks versus empirical evidence · Outputs, outcomes, and measurementGive specific respectful feedback while recognizing professional boundaries, power, and individual preferences.
Care personally and challenge directly · SBI feedback and observable behavior · Psychological safety and constructive conflict · Coaching, delegation, and expectations · Frameworks versus empirical evidenceUnderstand staff-plus scope, influence, and enabling work without confusing archetypes with universal titles.
Staff-plus archetypes and scope · Ownership, accountability, and decision rights · Stakeholders and alignment · Decision records and reversible experiments · Outputs, outcomes, and measurementUse heuristics and statistical thinking to question confident stories without turning bias labels into universal explanations.
System 1, System 2, and evidence limits · Frameworks versus empirical evidence · Decision records and reversible experiments · Outputs, outcomes, and measurement · Opportunity cost and prioritizationNo matches. Try a broader concept or clear the search.