Charlie Munger’s mental models give managers a better way to think. Use inversion, incentives, circle of competence, hammer, and two-track analysis.
How to Build a Leadership Framework From Your Own Expertise
Build a leadership framework from the expertise already in your head: a four-step method to name, simplify, and scale the process you keep explaining.
Communicating Vision to Stakeholders, Not Tasks
When a stakeholder asks what your team is building, leading with tasks makes you look like an executor. Here’s how to answer with the destination instead.
How to Stop Doing Your Team’s Work (Even When It’s Faster to Do It Yourself)
Doing it yourself is faster today and a trap by next year. Here’s how to match oversight to readiness and stop quietly taking your team’s work back.
When Your Boss Is the Ceiling: How to Diagnose What’s Blocking Your Growth
When your career stalls, the default is to assume the gap is yours to close. Often it isn’t. The TAPS framework identifies four types of boss ceilings (Threatened, Adverse, Passive, Systemic) and the specific move that works for each.
AI Adoption: How Managers Move Their Team Past Individual Productivity Hacks
our team uses AI to speed up individual tasks but workflows haven’t changed. Here’s how managers integrate AI at the workflow level instead
What to Do When You Think You Hired the Wrong Person
When you think you hired the wrong person, diagnose before you decide. The four questions and two conversations to work through first.
The 3 Shifts That Define Your First 6 Months as a Leader
The behaviors that read as appropriate humility early on start to read as something else by month six. Three specific shifts every new leader needs to make to move from validation to ownership, execution to strategy, and implicit to explicit standards.
Why Smart Leaders Get Steamrolled (And How to Fix It)
Confident delivery beats smart content in executive meetings. 4 practices for executive communication: hedging, frame control, CLAR, and clarity vs closure.
What 8 Years of Running a New Manager Program Actually Taught Me
The four biggest lessons learned after running a new manager training program for eight years.
