Apply Roger Martin's Playing to Win strategy cascade — the 5 integrated questions (winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, capabilities, management systems) that Martin and A.G. Lafley crystallized from P&G's turnaround. Use this skill whenever the user is doing strategy work — writing a strategy doc, deciding…
Apply Kim Scott's Radical Candor — the Care Personally + Challenge Directly 2×2 (Radical Candor / Ruinous Empathy / Obnoxious Aggression / Manipulative Insincerity), plus the GSD wheel, Career Conversations, Rock Stars vs Superstars, and her Just Work / Radical Respect (BUL — Bias, Prejudice, Bullying) framework. Use…
Apply Christina Wodtke's Radical Focus — OKRs done right, at the team level, with a weekly cadence (Monday commitments, Friday celebrations), one Objective at a time, and a Health Metric that guards against gaming. Use this skill whenever the user is working with OKRs — writing them, critiquing them, resetting them…
Apply Claire Hughes Johnson's Scaling People — the 4 essential operating principles (build self-awareness to build mutual awareness; say the thing you think you cannot say; distinguish management from leadership; come back to your operating system), the founding documents / guiding papers (mission, long-term goals…
Apply Ryan Singer's Shape Up — Basecamp's product development method for deciding what to build and how to ship it, distilled from the 2019 book Shape Up (free at basecamp.com/shapeup) and Singer's post-Basecamp evolution of the method at Felt Presence (2020–2026, including the Framing prelude, the Pitch → Package…
Apply Shreyas Doshi's PM frameworks -- LNO (Leverage/Neutral/Overhead) for task prioritization, pre-mortems with Tigers/Paper Tigers/Elephants for risk identification, High Agency for PM effectiveness, the Three Levels of Product Work (Impact/Execution/Optics) for communication alignment, Opportunity Cost vs ROI…
Apply Jake Knapp's Sprint — the five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with real customers, developed at Google Ventures (GV) and distilled in the 2016 book Sprint (co-authored with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz). Use this skill whenever the user is…
Apply Andy Raskin's Strategic Narrative — the 5-part company story (Name a Big Relevant Change in the World → Show Winners & Losers → Tease the Promised Land → Introduce Features as Magic Gifts → Present Evidence) that Raskin extracted from the Zuora sales deck in 2016 and has refined since (Old Game / New Game…
Apply Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC) — the Goal + three Throughput/Inventory/Operating-Expense measurements, the Five Focusing Steps (Identify → Exploit → Subordinate → Elevate → Repeat, and don't let inertia become a constraint), Drum-Buffer-Rope for production, Critical Chain for projects, and the…
Apply Annie Duke's decision-making toolkit — the integrated system across Thinking in Bets (2018), How to Decide (2020), and Quit (2022). Use this skill whenever the user is making a decision under uncertainty, evaluating a past decision (theirs or someone else's), running a post-mortem, considering a pivot, debating…
Apply Donella Meadows's systems thinking method — stocks and flows, balancing and reinforcing feedback loops, delays, bounded rationality, system archetypes (limits to growth, tragedy of the commons, shifting the burden, escalation, drift to low performance, fixes that fail, success to the successful), and the 12…
Apply Marc Benioff's V2MOM — Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures — the one-page alignment framework Benioff wrote on an American Express envelope in Salesforce's first weeks (1999) and has used to run the company through every stage since. Use this skill whenever the user is doing annual or quarterly…
Apply Amazon's Working Backwards method — Bill Carr and Colin Bryar's operational framework for deciding what to build and how to run the org that builds it, distilled from their 2021 book Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon and their post-book teaching at Working Backwards LLC. Use…