Resources
Articles and worksheets on leadership, trust and team performance.
Each one explains a model I use with CEOs and executive teams, in enough depth to put to work with yours.
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Setting and Maintaining High Standards
Standards run on results and behaviors at once, and the bar is set by what a leader tolerates rather than by what they announce.
August 6, 2026 · 4 min read
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Lencioni's pyramid of five failures that rest on each other, and why a results problem is usually solved several layers down.
August 5, 2026 · 5 min read
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The Executive Presence Wheel
Executive presence broken into eight components across how you show up and what you deliver, so there is something specific to work on.
August 4, 2026 · 4 min read
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Radical Candor
Caring personally and challenging directly at the same time, and why ruinous empathy is the quadrant that catches decent managers.
August 3, 2026 · 4 min read
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Levels of Listening
Three levels of attention in any conversation, and what changes when you move from your own head to the speaker.
July 31, 2026 · 4 min read
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The Ladder of Inference
How we climb from what actually happened to what we do about it in seconds, and how to climb back down.
July 30, 2026 · 4 min read
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Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern
Covey's distinction between what you can affect and what merely worries you, and why the circle you feed is the one that grows.
July 29, 2026 · 4 min read
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The Trust Equation
A four-factor model for what actually builds trust, and the one factor that quietly destroys it.
July 28, 2026 · 6 min read
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