Resources

Useful thinking should be usable.

Canvases, reviews and conversation guides for leaders who need to make a difficult situation clearer. No registration, no gated download and no invented certainty.

Downloadable field tools

Designed for a real conversation.

Each resource can be used independently with a leadership team. Print it, mark it up and adapt the language to your context.

PDF · 8 pages

Engineering Leadership Operating Review

A structured review for finding the operating conditions that help - or hinder - engineering performance.

  • Direction
  • Decisions
  • Operating system
  • Capability
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PDF · 4 pages

Transformation Readiness Canvas

Six lenses for testing whether transformation intent is connected to leadership choices and operating reality.

  • Intent
  • Leadership
  • Reality
  • Evidence
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PDF · 2 pages

Decision Clarity Canvas

A compact tool for making consequential decisions easier to understand, challenge and act on.

  • Choice
  • Owner
  • Trade-offs
  • Signals
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Resource principles

Open by default.

These resources are free to use inside your organization. Attribution is appreciated when you redistribute or adapt them.

No gate
Download without giving up your email address.
No universal answer
Use the questions to improve your own diagnosis.
No static library
Resources will be revised as practice reveals better questions.