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By Greg Daniels

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Leadership4 steps

Can't Do / Won't Do / Not Set Up To Do

Three reasons things don't happen — and 70-80% of the time it's the third one, which is yours.

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CORE Feedback Structure

Context, Observation, Result, Next Step — feedback about behavior, never personality

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Mindset4 steps

Excellence Over Speed (The Thought-Experiment Filter)

If you must choose, choose excellence — and kill most experiments before they ever go live.

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Execution Beats Strategy

Perfect strategy with poor execution teaches you nothing. Good-enough strategy with perfect execution compounds.

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Influence5 steps

Expand, Don't Shrink

Insert a step between receiving feedback and acting on it — then answer it by adding tools, never by getting smaller.

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Communication6 steps

Feeling-First Product Metaphor

Pick the feeling, name where you last felt it, and let the metaphor make a thousand small decisions for you.

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Communication4 steps

Gauge How It Lands

Read the reaction in real time and adjust which axis you move on — sad/mad means move up on care

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Leader Emulators

Build runnable models of the sharpest people you've worked with, then boot the right one when you're stuck.

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Multi-Sided Marketplace Operating Rules

In a three-sided marketplace, OKRs and A/B tests break — establish stability, name your primary customer, then bet.

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Putting On the Coat of the Job

Run the spreadsheet, then tear it up — and simulate a Tuesday in the job instead.

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Show Don't Tell (The Wall)

Lay out the entire user journey — pixel by pixel, minute by minute — on one physical wall.

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Leadership4 steps

Soliciting Feedback: The Order of Operations

Ask a go-to question, count to six, listen to understand, then reward the candor

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The 4B Framework (100 Focus Points)

Split 100 focus points across Brilliant Basics, Bread and Butter, Big Bets and Breaking Bad.

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The Dinosaur Brain Product Review

Executives hold three facts. Bring a recommendation, not a catalogue — and leave with principles, not answers.

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The Fascinating Reframe

Convert the visceral urge to be right into a question that harvests the information you're missing.

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The Full-Stack PM Triad: Sharpness, Drive, Influence

Raw sharpness you can build, drive you can barely coach, influence is non-negotiable.

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The Hill Climb

Name whether you're optimising a local hill or crossing the valley to a bigger mountain — then price the valley.

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The Lazy, Vain, Selfish User Lens

Design acquisition and onboarding for a user who is lazy, vain and selfish — not for your loyal fans.

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The Radical Candor 2x2

Care personally AND challenge directly — the two axes that place every act of feedback

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The Three Career Conversations

Past, dreams, and action plan — three 45-minute conversations to show you care and grow people

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Three Divergent PRFAQs (The Power of Three)

Write three fully-thought-through, divergent press releases — then recommend one.

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Toddler Soccer Goal Detangling

Goal every team on the same output metric and they swarm the ball. Detangle the customer journey into lanes.

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