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Source ideas behind this guide

Useful ideas from serious leadership and work systems. None of them is doctrine.

This guide takes useful ideas from several serious leadership and work systems.

No one is being asked to follow any one author, book, or system as doctrine.

The goal is to take the best parts and put them into our own plain language.

Ideas included here

• Stephen Covey and FranklinCovey: start with the end in mind.
• Peter Senge: learning organizations and systems thinking.
• Donella Meadows: thinking in systems.
• Amy Edmondson and Google re:Work: safe truth and team learning.
• Kim Scott: feedback with care and directness.
• David Marquet: leaders create more leaders.
• Andy Grove: managers improve the output of teams.
• OKR methods: goals should name outcomes and measures.

These sources are tools. They are not our identity.

Our goal is simple

• Make work clearer.
• Make truth safer.
• Make ownership fair.
• Make follow-through normal.
• Make systems better.
• Treat people with respect.