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$100 Voting for Prioritization

Give everyone $100 to allocate across options and surface the elephant in the room.

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Catalyst Review Forum

Replace the standing weekly review with parallel, role-based topic blocks anyone can join.

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Leadership3 steps

Cathedrals Not Bricks

Make every team member see the whole cathedral, not just the brick they're laying.

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Leadership4 steps

Context Over Control: Debate Upstream of the Solution

Empower teams by aligning on goal, hypothesis, and data—never by prescribing the solution.

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Communication3 steps

Flash Tags for Calibrated Feedback

Tag every piece of feedback FYI, Suggestion, Recommendation, or Plea so teams know how hard to weigh it.

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Productivity3 steps

ICE Prioritization (Impact, Confidence, Ease)

Score each idea on Impact, Confidence, and Ease to bubble the best ideas up without over-engineering the math

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Innovation3 steps

Learn by Making, Test the Extremes

Stop debating consequential decisions — run the experiment that shows the upper and lower bounds now.

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Strategy3 steps

Metrics Trees

Decompose your North Star metric and top business KPI into a tree of sub-metrics to align teams and estimate impact

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Oh-Sht Moments Career Calibration

Measure growth by counting the moments you felt underqualified and stretched.

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Productivity4 steps

Processing Over Memory: A Task System for the Overwhelmed Manager

Write everything down at the moment it's owed, groom into logical chunks, and free your head for thinking not remembering.

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Productivity3 steps

Systems Not Goals

Build a default-on repeatable system instead of chasing a one-off target.

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The 10% Planning Rule

Never spend more than 10% of an execution period planning it.

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Innovation3 steps

The Confidence Meter

Score how much evidence actually backs an idea, from a shiny pitch deck (0.1) to a live A/B test (10)

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Leadership4 steps

The GIST Board and Outcome Roadmaps

Replace release roadmaps with a living board of goals, ideas, and validation steps that the whole team owns

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Innovation4 steps

The GIST Model

Split product work into Goals, Ideas, Steps, and Tasks so evidence — not opinion — drives what gets built

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The Gravity Model for Zero-to-One Products

Ship new products with tiny shielded teams, then let traction—not headcount—pull in resources.

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The Strategy Contract

A one-page doc sitting between vision and roadmap that every pod writes for itself.

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Communication4 steps

The Trade-Off Menu: Turn a Velocity Demand Into Leverage

When leadership wants everything faster, hand them a menu of what you'll do and what you won't—and make them choose.

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Innovation4 steps

The Validation Gamut (Assessment, Data, Tests, Experiments, Release)

Validate an idea's assumptions cheaply first — assessment and data before you ever build, fakes before you build for real

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Think From First Principles by Writing

Close the laptop, write the question at the top of a blank page, and answer it before Googling anything.

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Communication3 steps

Two-Way Write-Ups

Make written docs conversational with done-reading, Dory questions, and a sentiment table.

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Productivity4 steps

Velocity Guardrails: Ship Freely Until the Metrics Go Red

Standardize a few quality metrics per team; below the line they ship anything, above it they fix before they ship.

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