For your team, good leadership is everything. As a good leader, you govern yourself, govern work, and govern others before elevating others. Reduce the subjectivity, ambiguity, and cost of good leadership with methodology.

Some people in power act in bad faith. Call them a contrarian, infiltrator, saboteur, narcissist, and predator. There is a market for them, and they are everywhere. They have their methodology. You need yours.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your vigilance? Upfront rigor has a different cost than procrastinated quality. Choose Prepare over Repair.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your variability? Consider how your innovation team writes. Apply your exotic word choice in marketing and poetry, not with your core innovation team. Controlled variability through these five writing strategies makes your team focused and fast.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your automation? Consider whether technology and data is your master or your servant. Consider whether Technology runs your business or if Business Runs Your Business.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting ease in innovation? Consider Earn versus Burn, smart use of meetings and emails, and documentation that is clearly useful. Good methodology makes innovation look easy.

Facilitating meetings is a difficult job, which is why its so valuable and why Facilitation is a profession in itself. Skilled facilitation keeps morale, value, and alignment high.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your autonomy? Consider tradeoffs of boundaries, centralization, risk, reward, and contingencies. Shape your methodology. Shape your autonomy.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your elasticity and resilience? Consider idle work, idle workers, a balanced innovation pipeline, spontaneous alternatives for stakeholders, and if you blame a hiring decision. Fix your methodology. Fix your elasticity.

You have experienced poor leadership. Different flavors include monopolizing opinions, command and control, bossiness, and climbers. Be able to describe poor leadership, navigate it, and overcome it.

It’s a stretch to say parenting is one of the performing arts. It’s not a stretch to say that the language, habits, and culture of parenting are valuable to innovation. Autonomy, growth, grace, and self-sufficiency only start the list of ways that business learns, benefits, and profits from the art of parenting.

How you see yourself in your market - finances, customer, competition, and the value chain.