Most leadership advice is a collection of stories and heuristics disconnected from any underlying theory. We use economics, psychology, and neuroscience to build a coherent framework for how leadership actually works.
In October 1941 four Bletchley Park cryptanalysts wrote directly to the Prime Minister for forty clerks and typists, after months of asking through the normal channels.
Every act of leadership is a combination of the same handful of functions. Our framework is the lens that runs through every issue, every episode, and the book.
Lincoln gave Hooker command of the Army of the Potomac in a letter that deftly aligned Hooker's virtues, faults, and ambitions towards a productive goal.
A guest dispatch from Josh Richardson on a lesson he learned about keeping the larger objective in focus
In the Jātaka tale of the monkey king, the leader sacrifices himself for his troop's safety.
Aaron and Spencer talk with COL(R) Jay Powers, former commander of 5th Special Forces Group and now a Scaling Up coach and high school wrestling coach, about why leadership is simple but difficult and why a leader's priorities so rarely reach the last person in the organization.
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