The shelf
Short pieces from the same body of work as your coach — for when you have a few minutes.
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How the shelf is built
Every piece here comes from the same body of work as your coach, in five parts, ordered the way leadership actually develops. It begins with the inner game, because how you see decides everything downstream. From there, the practice: the daily disciplines that turn seeing into doing. Then the work turns outward — leading others, and then changing the game. And it ends with legacy: what keeps compounding after you leave the room. Open a part to see its pieces; take them in order, or take what tonight needs — a few minutes is enough.
The two foundations · Always on, at every level — how you see, and what you practise.
The Inner Game2 pieces · 30 minHow you see, and what you do with the seeing — the person in the mirror.
It starts here because everything downstream inherits it: the way you see a week decides what that week can teach you.
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Fire Your Committees
Two voices convene after every hard day. Neither was appointed. Neither gets a vote.
You will come away withA way to tell which voice is talking — and the one-minute audit that shows whether anyone in your life can overrule it.
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Neither of them gets a vote — Fire Your Committees
The author on the two voices that get into the car after a hard day — and why neither of them was in the room.
You will come away withWhy the kinder voice is as wrong as the harsher one; how a fact with a room in it goes to a person, not back to the voice; and the column beside the names that tells you whether you built a board or an audience.
The three charges · What is in your keeping: the people, the game, and what outlasts you.
Leading Others2 pieces · 30 minOwnership, multiplication, and the standards a room absorbs.
The work turns outward: what you tolerate, what you multiply, and what a room absorbs from you without being told.
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The Two-Week Test
Indispensability is the failure signal — being needed is the bottleneck wearing your name tag.
You will come away withA falsifiable read on whether you have built a team or a bottleneck — and a version small enough to run this month.
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Being needed is the bottleneck — The Two-Week Test
The author on the cheapest honest read of whether you multiply or merely matter: two weeks with you out of the room — and the sort you must do before you read the result.
You will come away withHow to run the two weeks so the result means something — controls sorted from bottlenecks, the pass that is not "nothing broke", and what to say out loud before the fortnight begins.
Changing the Game2 pieces · 30 minPace, transformation, and seeing the water you swim in.
The wider game — pace, transformation, and noticing the water before it decides for you.
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The Wrong Thermometer
What number has looked fine the entire time it was dying?
You will come away withA way to pair every internal number with an external one — so you can tell growing apart from winning before the gap shows up in your share.
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Progress is not winning — The Wrong Thermometer
The author on the number that reads fine while the thing it was never measuring is dying — and the one scoreboard you cannot flatter.
You will come away withWhy the number is usually right and that is the danger; how to put the field beside your greenest metric while it is still green; and why an engagement score is a thermometer, not a scoreboard.