Leadership
Judgement, decision-making and building leadership capacity.
Tools
Founder Freedom Test
Find out how many days your business could run without you, and what's actually stopping that number from growing.
4 minutes
Manager Independence Diagnostic
A five-minute assessment to identify where your managers still depend on you for decisions they should own.
5 minutes
Articles
How to stop being the bottleneck
If the business stalls whenever you're on holiday, you haven't built a company — you've built a very demanding job.
Al Elliott
Why your managers keep escalating decisions they should be making
Every decision that reaches you is one your managers have decided is safer to hand up than to own.
Leanne Elliott
Remote work isn't broken. Your management was always the risk.
Remote work didn't break management. It just removed the things that were quietly covering for bad management.
Leanne Elliott
Podcast
Why your founder's culture dies at 50 employees (and what to do about it), with Josh Levine
Work futurist Josh Levine explains why founder-led culture has an expiration date, the physics of cultural breakdown, and the three-step framework — identify, codify, communicate — for turning unspoken behaviour into values that actually scale.
41 min
Your first 90 days as a new manager, with Vince Sanderson
So you've just been promoted to manager. Now what? Vince Sanderson joins Al and Leanne to break the first 90 days into three phases — learning, reviewing, refining — and explains why the biggest mistake new managers make is becoming "the fixer."
56 min
Why managers fail (and how to become a world-class manager), with Dave Kline
Management accelerator founder Dave Kline joins Al and Leanne to explain the most common reasons new and experienced managers fail — and what world-class management actually looks like day to day.
44 min
How to make remote working work
Remote work exposed a lot of management habits that only worked because everyone was in the same room. Al and Leanne on what to fix.
1 hr 14 min
Want to be notified of new articles and resources on leadership?
We're not another newsletter blasting everyone the same thing. Tell us what's going on and we'll curate the two or three things a month genuinely worth your time.