The First Principles of Leading a Crew
What every new leader of working people should understand before their first morning meeting.
Transmitting craft and clear thinking.
What every new leader of working people should understand before their first morning meeting.
Why the leaders who last are first and last teachers — and how to develop the discipline.
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.
The single highest-leverage skill a student of anything can develop.
On the quiet influence of a single person who gave the work a different shape.
How the work shifted from operating to teaching — and why both have continued.
How to capture the unwritten knowledge that lives in a company's most experienced people.
Why teaching one person well is among the most generous things a community can offer.
Why the future of apprenticeship is local — and what that demands of small operators.
A short conversation guide for one-on-one mentorship conversations.
An outline for building a multi-year apprenticeship curriculum in a small operation.