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The tools from the book.

The book gives you the ideas. These are the tools to actually use them — the same exercises I walk leaders through when the ground is shifting under them. Take the one you need.

Awareness · 2 tools Alliance · 3 tools Action · 3 tools Strengthening · 1 tool
Waypoint One

Awareness

Cultivating knowledge of yourself and your surroundings — who and where am I?

Waypoint One · p58

Your Inner Weather System

Under pressure, most of us have a default. Short-tempered. Foggy. Frozen. This helps you name the emotional weather you bring to leadership before it starts running the room for you.

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Waypoint One · p79

Recognizing Your Losses

Change takes things from us that are hard to name, and grief that stays unnamed tends to come out sideways. This one helps you make those losses real enough to actually move through them.

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Dive Deeper: Awareness Waypoint One

The experts and research behind this Waypoint. ★ marks the sources named in the book.

★Dr. Haley Perlus
drhaleyperlus.comListen: ep. 787
★Leah Weiss, How We Work
Book
★Britt Andreatta
brittandreatta.comWatch: "Dealing With Hijacks"
★The Conscious Leadership Group
conscious.is
Susan David, Emotional Agility
susandavid.com
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Wikipedia
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
Positive Psychology
Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths
buckinghaminstitute.com
Cognitive bias — confirmation, halo, spotlight, IKEA, attribution
Simply Psychology
Tversky & Kahneman, "Heuristics and Biases" (1974)
Read (PDF)
Waypoint Two

Alliance

Building relationships across boundaries that foster trust, abundance, and mutual growth.

Waypoint Two · p106

Embracing Curiosity

When someone gets under our skin, our first instinct is rarely curiosity. A short set of questions I use to loosen my own grip on being right.

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Waypoint Two · p118

Intentionally Bring in Diverse Voices

Nobody different is going to wander into your bubble on their own. A practical way to see who's missing and go find them.

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Waypoint Two · p126

Choosing Trust

Trust feels like a risk because it is one. These questions help you notice where you're defaulting to competition, and where choosing trust might open something up.

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Dive Deeper: Alliance Waypoint Two

The experts and research behind this Waypoint. ★ marks the sources named in the book.

★Amy Edmondson — psychological safety
Watch: TEDxHGSEamycedmondson.comHarvard faculty
★Tim Clark — Four Stages of Psychological Safety
leaderfactor.com
★The Global Equity Collective
globalequitycollective.com
★Aperian Global
aperian.com
★The Sustainable Compassion Training Group — Lama John Makransky
sustainablecompassion.orgHow Compassion Works
Heifetz, Linsky & Grashow, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
cambridge-leadership.com
Edmondson, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams"
DOI
Julia Rozovsky / Google re:Work — Five Keys to a Successful Team
rework.withgoogle.com
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Book
Hong & Page — diverse problem solvers outperform
Scott E. PageDOI
Williams & Mihaylo, "How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias"
HBR
Greenwald & Banaji, "The Science of Implicit Race Bias"
amacad.org
Eisenberger, Lieberman & Williams, "Does Rejection Hurt?"
DOI
Gallup, "The Increasing Importance of a Best Friend at Work"
gallup.com
Cedars-Sinai, "The Science of Kindness"
cedars-sinai.org
Waypoint Three

Action

Consistent, incremental changes that add up to radical progress — even when the destination isn't fully visible.

Waypoint Three · p142

Identify Our Core Values

Ten values, then you start cutting. It's an uncomfortable exercise, and that's the point. What's left tells you how to spend your time when everything feels urgent.

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Waypoint Three · p144

What's The Worst

What's the Worst That Could Happen

We talk ourselves out of things when the actual worst case isn't that bad. A way to walk the fear all the way down and see what's really there.

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Waypoint Three · p158

Project Plan for Options

When the path is unclear, a plan is how you stop spinning. Get clear on the why, map the barriers, build the backup to your backup.

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Dive Deeper: Action Waypoint Three

The experts and research behind this Waypoint. ★ marks the sources named in the book.

★Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey — Immunity to Change
mindsatwork.com
★Polarity Practice Portal
polaritypracticetools.com
★August Public — decision-making
aug.co/decision-making
★Sociocracy 3.0 — "Good Enough for Now, Safe Enough to Try"
sociocracy30.orgGESET explained
Richard Koch, The 80/20 Principle
richardkoch.net
Daniel J. Siegel, The Developing Mind
drdansiegel.com
Emily Oster, "There's No Secret Option C"
parentdata.org
Jeff Bezos, 2015 Letter to Shareholders
aboutamazon.com
Lieberman et al., "Putting Feelings into Words"
DOI
Rothenberg, "Janusian Thinking and Nobel Prize Laureates"
DOI
"How Kodak Failed"
Forbes
"How Netflix Almost Lost to Blockbuster"
CNBC
Strengthening Yourself

The daily practice

The synthesis. Not a Waypoint on its own — the one check that keeps all three moving together.

Strengthening · p186

The Compass Checklist

Awareness, Alliance, Action. On their own, each one collapses. This is the daily check I use to keep all three moving together when things are uncertain.

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Dive Deeper: Strengthening Yourself

The book has no Dive Deeper page for this section — this list is additive, and pairs with The Compass Checklist.

Brené Brown, Strong Ground
brenebrown.com
Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made
lisafeldmanbarrett.com
Pooja Lakshmin, Real Self-Care
poojalakshmin.com

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