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Stop delegating up
How much of your weekend goes on reworking your team’s documents? Yet again this week, I asked a leadership group that question, and the room sighed. Leaders often end up rewriting the docs and decks that reach them. They take home hundreds of pages to fix each...
Clear isn’t the same as compelling
This week I ran the online kickoff for a large workshop I’m hosting here in Seattle next week. I asked participants whether they’d heard of the Pyramid Principle. A few had. A few others said they have a skill built into their in-house AI tool that ‘does it for them’....
3 overlooked leadership communication practices
You know how it goes. A draft goes out. Comments come back.Some are sharp, some ‘make it pop’, and one is from someone who didn’t read past the first paragraph. Three rounds later, the deck is better, but nobody could tell you why it improved or how to avoid the edits...
How to think rigorously
Recently I caught myself doing something I warn every client against: I opened a blank document and started typing before I knew what I needed to say. It felt productive. Words appeared quickly. Progress, right? Except an hour later I had three pages of scattered...
The Only 7 Frameworks Worth Knowing
Somewhere in your inbox is a LinkedIn post promising ‘50 Mental Models Every Leader Needs’ or ‘100 Frameworks That Will Change How You think”. You saved it and will never open it again. Nobody masters 50 frameworks. Not McKinsey partners, the CEOs you admire, nor the...
Communication skills compound too
You wouldn't expect a single trip to the gym to make you strong or one deposit to grow into a retirement fund. Yet many of us treat communication skills differently. We think of them as something we either "have" or don't, rather than something we can build. The good...
BREAKTHROUGH THINKING STRATEGIES
