worksheet
Leadership gap map
Skills that earned your last step vs. skills the next step requires.
Print and fill
Resources
Printables and templates that match the book. Use them in 1:1s, staff meetings, and the first 90 days of a new seat.
worksheet
Skills that earned your last step vs. skills the next step requires.
Print and fill
worksheet
Five items to transfer in writing, with names and dates.
Use this week
worksheet
Ten people who can stall or accelerate the current bet.
One conversation
template
Customer, bet, risk, ask — 150 words.
Copy the template
template
Owner, type, date to revisit.
Install for 7 days
template
Stop-doing, deputies, decision rights, stretch assignments.
New role kit
checklist
Person, not status. Next move. Feedback that is still warm.
Before your next 1:1
checklist
How they treat the room, not only how they treat the compiler.
Before the next onsite
checklist
Decision, options, recommendation, risk. Ninety seconds.
Before the staff meeting
guide
Eight sessions for teams, academies, and book clubs.
Openguide
Nine dimensions. A profile. A reading path.
OpenThe Manager’s Path
Camille Fournier
The map of engineering management roles, without romance.
Staff Engineer
Will Larson
Leadership without a hiring stack.
An Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson
Org design as an engineering problem.
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Still the operating system.
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
Especially honest on the identity shift.
The Engineering Executive’s Primer
Will Larson
For the floor above director.
Accelerate
Forsgren, Humble, Kim
When you need evidence, not folklore.
Team Topologies
Skelton & Pais
Interfaces as the product.
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
Intent, not control.
Radical Candor
Kim Scott
Care and challenge in the same sentence.