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Leadership: Concepts
- 3 Speeds of Communication — Communication happens at three different speeds. Choosing the right speed matters.
- Asynchronous Communication — Communication where participants don't need to be present at the same time.
- Authoritarian Antiauthoritarians — The paradox of people who reject authority but become authoritarian themselves.
- Coaching as a Leadership Style — Leading by developing people rather than directing them.
- Conways Law — "Any organisation that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organisation's communication structure." - Melvin Conway, 1967
- Focusing Illusion — Nothing is as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
- Framing — How you present information shapes how people respond to it.
- Fundamental Attribution Bias — You judge others by their character and yourself by your circumstances.
- Group Mind — A team is a tool until it isn't. At some point it becomes a mind of its own — and once it starts thinking back, you can't unthink it.
- Holacracy — A system of self-organisation where authority is distributed through roles, not job titles.
- Holistic Leadership — Leading the whole system, not just the parts you're directly responsible for.
- Just For Fun — Linus Torvalds' three stages of motivation: survival, social order, entertainment. The goal is to reach the third.
- Law of Triviality — People spend disproportionate time on trivial issues while neglecting important ones.
- Mirror Neuron System — People mirror the behaviour they see, especially from leaders.
- Push and Pull Methods of Aligning Team — Two ways to get a team moving in the same direction.
- Servant Leadership — The leader's job is to serve the team, not the other way around.
- Tetris Effect — What you practise seeing, you start seeing everywhere.
- The Flow State — Peak performance happens when challenge meets skill with zero distraction.
- Writing Driven Communications — Using written documents as the primary tool for thinking, alignment, and decisions.
- Zero-Based Budgeting — Every budget cycle starts from zero. Nothing is carried forward automatically.
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