The First Principles of Leading a Crew
What every new leader of working people should understand before their first morning meeting.
Essays, frameworks, and case notes on leading crews, teams, and organizations with patience.
What every new leader of working people should understand before their first morning meeting.
Most popular leadership writing assumes a knowledge worker context. Operators need different tools.
How to evaluate a candidate for the standards they hold, not the credentials they have collected.
Why the leaders who last are first and last teachers — and how to develop the discipline.
Three frameworks for thinking clearly when the time to think feels like it has run out.
Most decisions improve when the room is heard first. A practice, not a posture.
The long, quiet work of forming teams that no longer need their original leader.
What mentorship requires of both parties, sustained across years rather than meetings.
A framework for choosing between handing off and showing how, with the second-order effects of each.
Authority is borrowed, not owned. A short ethics for those carrying it.
How to gather information from a room while staying yourself in it.
Succession as the final test of any leadership tenure.