The Knowledge That Leaves
Institutional memory departs in generational waves rather than one person at a time, and the material lost is precisely what nobody thought to write down because…
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Leadership Lessons
Practical leadership lessons from experienced Idahoans across the state's industries, institutions, and communities — guidance you can apply in your own work.
An Institution or a Following
Both look identical while the person is present. The difference appears at exactly one moment, and by then it is too late to do anything about…
Read →What Institutions Are and Why They Matter
An institution is the accumulated body of agreements, habits, relationships, and trust that lets people act together as individuals arrive and depart. The legal entity is…
Read →The Development Audit
One page, once a year. Who has been given a real decision, who could hold each critical role in ninety days, and whose judgment leaves with…
Read →Keeping People You Cannot Promote
Capable people in flat organizations leave because nothing is changing, not because no title is available. Scope, ownership, and honesty about the ceiling are what actually…
Read →Being Mentored Well
The junior party controls most of what determines whether the relationship produces anything, and almost nobody tells them so. Four things that are entirely within their…
Read →Potential Is Not a Property
High potential is treated as something a person has. It is closer to a prediction made by whoever holds the label, and the label then produces…
Read →Building Depth Rather Than a Favourite
Concentrating development on one identified successor creates a single point of failure and stops the organization developing anybody else. Three or four, decided late, costs more…
Read →What Each Party Owes
Most mentoring relationships dissolve from unstated expectations rather than from anybody behaving badly. Four obligations on each side, worth naming in the first conversation.
Read →Teaching Judgment Through Cases
Conclusions do not transfer. Situations do. The useful unit is a decision you actually faced, told with the uncertainty intact and the outcome withheld until they…
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