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Influence4 steps

Asking for Help Well

Ask for advice, not answers — the counterintuitive skill that separates who rises from who stalls.

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Communication3 steps

Be Interested, Not Interesting

Play small talk like hacky sack: set the other person up to succeed and balance disclosure over time

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Marketing4 steps

Brand Personality via Five Dimensions

Spike in two of five personality dimensions, then write five 'we are X but not Y' attributes with built-in tension

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Strategy4 steps

Breaking Through the Senior-Manager Choke Point

Two gates block senior promotion: can you do the job, and does the job exist.

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Influence4 steps

Buy-In as a Journey, Not a Meeting

Win the decision before the decision meeting by looping stakeholders in early and staying open on the solution.

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Leadership6 steps

Buying Life One Hour at a Time (Public Failure Recovery)

Own the failure, buy trust back one hour at a time, then get face-to-face.

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Strategy4 steps

Candidate Market Fit

Position yourself as a narrow spear, not a net — three-to-four attributes the market actually wants.

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Strategy3 steps

Choosing a Startup PR Agency

Vet PR agencies on month-one behavior, writing samples, and lead time — not on big-brand logos.

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Marketing6 steps

Company-Generated, Company-Distributed Content Loops

Build loops where your product creates branded content and distributes it into other people's workflows.

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Strategy4 steps

Curiosity Loops

Turn a hard decision into structured, contextual advice by asking the right people the right question.

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Communication3 steps

Dare to Be Dull

Strive for connection over perfection to free up cognitive bandwidth when speaking spontaneously

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Leadership4 steps

Data-Driven Self-Story Rewriting

Debunk or validate the limiting stories you tell yourself by researching how people actually experience you.

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Communication4 steps

Design For Tomorrow's Majority, Not The Vocal Minority

Optimize for the far larger future user base, then manage the unhappy few with authentic listening.

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Strategy3 steps

Differentiate Above The Model, Not Around Its Gaps

Build your moat outside the LLM so your product gets better as the models get better.

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

Do It End-to-End Before You Hire For It

If the core team can't crack a function once, a new hire won't rescue it.

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Mindset4 steps

Don't Be the Frog: The Learning Trajectory Test

Judge whether to stay in a job by the direction of your learning curve, not by inertia.

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Leadership3 steps

Earn The Next Role By Driving Impact In This One

Stop eyeing the next promotion; be judged on impact delivered in the job you already hold.

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Peak Performance4 steps

Eating Your Vegetables: The 10-12 Exposure Rule

Do a hard, avoided skill 10-12 deliberate times before judging whether you actually dislike it.

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Mindset3 steps

Embrace the Imposter: Act Despite Expecting to Fail

Stop trying to feel confident; give yourself permission to fail and take the shot anyway.

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Sales5 steps

Enterprise Procurement Navigation

Do procurement's work for them, define exactly what you do, and split contracts so deals don't die on the vine

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Mindset4 steps

Envision-the-Ending Goal Discovery

Surface hidden goals by vividly imagining the finished future first, then reverse-engineering the journey to it.

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Strategy4 steps

Explore and Exploit Career Strategy

Explore widely with a thesis early, then exploit a role for the specific learnings your next goal needs.

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Leadership3 steps

Fight Club: A Standing Slot for Conflict

Reserve a recurring weekly slot with your key peers specifically to surface and resolve conflict early.

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Marketing3 steps

Find-the-Nugget Angle Selection

Ignore the company's own messaging; find the single thread reporters care about and double down.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

Follow People, Not Plans

Choose jobs by who you'll learn from, not by a five-year plan or a financial bet.

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Leadership3 steps

Follow the Heat

The company's pressure point moves stage by stage; staff it as it moves.

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Strategy5 steps

Format Malleability: Any Input, Any Output

Stop shipping content in one format — give people the power to remix knowledge into the medium they're in the mood for

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Sales6 steps

Freemium Plan Design by Motivations for Motion

Design plans by mapping what drives someone to move up a tier — and measure product-driven revenue.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Head-Heart-Hands Micro-Experiments

Change yourself by running the tiniest possible experiment and reading the result through head, heart, and body.

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Marketing3 steps

Incumbent Anchoring

Position your product as taking on a household-name incumbent, never as a new category.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Inner vs Outer Scorecard Values Filter

Rank your real values, then test whether a decision optimizes for them instead of for status.

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Leadership4 steps

Inside-Out Leadership Circles

Lead from the center out — self first, then one-on-ones, teams, and the business — because external fuel cracks.

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Productivity5 steps

Intentional Remote Operating Model

Make remote work productive by scheduling connection in bursts, protecting synced deep-work blocks, and banning status meetings.

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Influence3 steps

Job Mission with OKRs (Play to Win)

Write your own version of the role with OKRs and share it with the hiring manager to win the offer.

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Marketing3 steps

Marketing's Reversibility Advantage: Try Everything, Make Noise

Product changes are near-permanent; marketing changes cost nothing, so experiment relentlessly.

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Leadership4 steps

Peer Feedback Groups

Small standing peer pods that review each other's rough-draft work to build feedback muscle and trust.

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Marketing4 steps

Product Positioning with the Bar Test

Define audience via concentric circles, distill into the classic four-part statement, then validate it out loud at a bar

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Marketing3 steps

Publication-to-Story Fit Map

Match each story type to the one publication most likely to cover it, before pitching anyone.

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Sales4 steps

Pull, Not Praise: Reading Real Product-Market Fit Signals

Judge customer calls by the questions they ask, not the compliments they give.

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Sales3 steps

Qualification-First Diagnosis

There is no bottom-of-funnel problem — slow deals trace back to qualifying the wrong people, message, or problem

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Communication5 steps

Read Before You Retract: AI Incident Triage

When your AI product goes viral for something alarming, diagnose the audience's reaction before you touch the product

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Mindset3 steps

Reframe Anxiety as Excitement

Relabel the identical arousal response from nervous to excited to calm yourself and speak better

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Peak Performance3 steps

Speaking Visualization Rehearsal

Mentally rehearse the whole speaking event in advance to desensitize yourself and gain a sense of agency

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Innovation5 steps

Stage-Gated Product Incubation

Grow new products through five funded stages — wonder, explore, make, impact, scale — validating at each gate.

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Marketing4 steps

Startup Launch PR Playbook

Fix your story, set realistic exclusive expectations, hang news on a bigger hook, and mine local press

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Self-Mastery5 steps

Superpower Excavation from Peak Stories

Find your true strengths by overlaying three peak-experience stories and spotting the theme that recurs.

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Innovation4 steps

Systematic Invention (Expertise + Scheduled Thinking + Recombination)

Be an expert, book two hours a month, and fuse two things that already exist.

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Innovation5 steps

Technology-First Discovery with a Shape Hypothesis

When you start from a capability instead of a problem, form a hypothesis about its shape before you ship it

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Productivity4 steps

The $10 Game for Personal Priorities

Allocate a notional $10 across your priorities to expose where your time actually goes versus where it should.

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Innovation3 steps

The 10x Lens on New Ideas

For every promising idea, ask where it could go in 3-5 years if it were 10x bigger — and let that reshape it now.

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Sales5 steps

The 30-Prospect Manual Discovery Experiment

Before buying any sales tool, hand-pick 30 prospects, write each a real note, and let the response rate reveal your ICP parameters

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Communication3 steps

The ADD Answer Structure

Answer, Detailed example, Describe relevance: give complete, value-adding responses in Q&A

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Leadership5 steps

The Anti-Sell Coach Decision Framework

Most people don't need a coach — test the goal against cheaper alternatives, then select for vibe over credentials.

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Communication3 steps

The Contrarian Coverage-Gap Angle

Give reporters the bold opposing view on a trending topic they're already covering positively.

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Communication3 steps

The Direct Funding Pitch

Pitch funding news by pattern-matching a beat reporter and stating the deal in three sentences.

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Marketing3 steps

The Dummy Explanation (Escape Your Bubble)

Write every message as if the reader knows nothing about you, your product, or your market.

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Sales4 steps

The Four-Component Cold Outreach Message

Open cold with relevancy + a counterintuitive hook + a problem (never the solution), kept short enough not to scroll

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Leadership4 steps

The Four I's Feedback Structure

Information, Impact, Invitation, Implications: package feedback so it lands as collaborative problem-solving

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Influence4 steps

The Four Legs of the Negotiation Stool

Negotiate the resources you need to hit your OKRs before salary, then ask 'are you open to?'

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Sales3 steps

The Friction Commitment Test

Deliberately make the next step hard to filter for buyers who truly want it.

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Leadership7 steps

The Growth Org Triad: People & Process, Strategy, Data

A growth org only works when all three of people/process, strategy and data are healthy at once.

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Communication3 steps

The Impact-Not-Activity Interview

Win interviews on presence and enthusiasm first, then on impact — never on how hard you worked.

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Communication5 steps

The Impacts & Learnings Review

The one meeting a growth team can't skip: discuss learnings and implications, never status.

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Communication3 steps

The Jargon-Strip Clarity Test

Say what your product does out loud in plain answers; if the writing can't match, strip the jargon.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

The Job Search Council

Run your job hunt as a committed 6-8 person peer group that flips anxiety into accountability.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

The Kryptonite Reframe

Ask 'how does this serve me?' to convert a perceived weakness into a functional advantage — or decide to route around it.

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Communication3 steps

The Lightweight-First Outreach Opener

Open cold with a one-line 'are you open to ideas?' instead of a full pitch, to earn a reply.

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Strategy6 steps

The Loop-Based Growth Strategy Model

Document how you actually grow as connected loops, then let the biggest constraint pick your quarter.

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Leadership5 steps

The Magic Loop

A five-step, repeatable loop that converts helping your manager into leverage for your own goals.

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Innovation5 steps

The Magic Test for Control Surfaces

Users ask for knobs and sliders; shipping them literally is how a magical product becomes an ordinary one

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Strategy4 steps

The Manukan Two-Pager & Listening Tour

Draft what you want and don't want, then run structured listening-tour conversations to find your fit.

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Strategy5 steps

The Narrow-and-Deep Community Wedge

Win one persona, one context, one use case in a community you can meaningfully influence — then widen.

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Leadership5 steps

The Nirvana Vision / Relentless Mission Framework

Vision = the customer's Nirvana state, with your company deleted from it. Mission = how you'll get them there.

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Innovation5 steps

The Person Is the Product

Find one person with an extraordinary workflow, shadow them, then compress their expertise into software

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Leadership6 steps

The PM-Engineering Alignment Operating System

Run product and engineering as one leadership unit with clear ownership and async, iterated reviews.

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Strategy4 steps

The Purpose Statement (We Exist To)

Distill why you exist into one 10-year 'we exist to' sentence that makes people root for you

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Peak Performance3 steps

The Rule of Lung

Make your exhale twice as long as your inhale to trigger the relaxation response before speaking

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Strategy5 steps

The Scrappy Wedge for Unglamorous Investment

Win backing for unsexy work by starting small, showing it visually, making it easy for others, and proving momentum.

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Sales4 steps

The Service-First Wedge

When the buyer has no process to buy your tech, sell a time-boxed service that gets you the logo, revenue, and the pen

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Marketing5 steps

The Startup Naming Process

Position first, brief the intent, brainstorm hundreds of bad names, then score survivors against seven criteria

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Strategy6 steps

The Team-Based Activation Ladder (Setup → Aha → Habit)

Find the habit moment that predicts retention, then work backwards to the aha and setup moments.

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Communication3 steps

The Triple-A Apology

Acknowledge, Appreciate, Amend: apologize for the transgression, not for how someone feels

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Communication4 steps

The WHAT Toast Structure

Why we're here, How you're connected, Anecdote, Thank you: a GPS for any toast or tribute

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Leadership6 steps

The Zero-to-One Enclave

Conditions that let a startup-shaped team actually ship inside a big company

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Innovation4 steps

Throwaway Prototyping To Discover The Product

Build disposable prototypes on real data to feel what works before writing any production code.

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Productivity4 steps

Use AI As Leverage On Your PM Time

Assign the model a role, feed it more context than you could read, and iterate the prompt until it works.

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Sales5 steps

Vulnerability-Based Customer Discovery

Admit you're early and unfinished (even if you're not) to get raw feedback, then gate-check whether the problem is real

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Communication3 steps

What / So What / Now What

A three-part structure that turns any on-the-spot update or answer into a memorable, digestible message

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Sales3 steps

Win-Rate-First Funnel Math

Stop obsessing over conversion rate — a high win rate means you need far less top-of-funnel throughput

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