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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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Beating Pre-Talk Nerves

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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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Cathedrals Not Bricks

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

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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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Homework for Life

Capture one story-worthy moment every day to build an endless bank of stories and slow down time.

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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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Location and Action Openers

Start every story with where you are and what's happening — it activates imagination and silences the room.

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Oh-Sht Moments Career Calibration

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

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Speaking with Adjacency

To explain something dull, tell a story about something else, then snap it into place.

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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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The Five-Second Moment

Build every story around one instant of transformation or realization, and start at the end.

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The Five Stakes Tools

Five devices — elephant, backpack, breadcrumb, hourglass, crystal ball — that make an audience wonder what happens next.

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The Four Engines of Attention

Stakes, surprise, suspense, and humor are the only four things keeping a business audience listening.

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The Personal Interest Inventory

Catalog the facts about yourself by reach and intensity, then weave them strategically into how you speak.

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The Power of Yes

Say yes to what scares you — a yes can always become a no, but a no forecloses the door forever.

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The Three-Point Story Test

A real story must contain change, pass the dinner test, and be about you.

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Two-Way Write-Ups

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

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