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The Leadership from the Helm
Starter Kit
Three practical tools to help you assess where you are, understand the environment around you, and deliberately chart your next move.
Organizational Reconnaissance Worksheet
P.I.E. Career Scorecard
Leadership Compass Self-Assessment
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Tools for the Journey
Six essential tools to help you navigate, grow, and lead with intention.
Leadership
Compass
A self-assessment to help you lead with clarity, integrity, and purpose.
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Organizational Reconnaissance
Map the landscape, understand the players, and identify opportunities.
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P.I.E. Career Scorecard
Evaluate your Performance, Image and Exposure to find your next level.
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Career Wins
Log
Track and document your accomplishments. Because performance matters — and you need to tell the story.
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Your Personal CONOPS
Turn your career goals into a clear plan: mission, end state, objectives, actions and measures.
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Leadership After-Action Review
Reflect. Learn. Adjust. A simple framework for continuous improvement.
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Books That Shaped My Thinking
Leadership isn't developed from a single source. These are some of the books and thinkers that challenged, sharpened, or reinforced the way I approach leadership.
The First 90 Days
Michael D. Watkins
A smart, practical roadmap for entering a new role, understanding the organization, building credibility, and creating early wins. It is especially useful for leaders learning how to read culture and navigate a new environment.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
A clear explanation of what real strategy looks like and why so many plans fail. Rumelt shows how strong leaders diagnose the real problem, choose a focused approach, and align actions around it.
Empowering Yourself
Harvey J. Coleman
A practical guide to understanding the unwritten rules of career advancement. Coleman’s P.I.E. framework—Performance, Image, and Exposure—explains why strong work alone is often not enough to move forward.
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
A compelling leadership story about moving authority and decision-making deeper into the organization. Marquet shows how leaders can create more capable, confident teams by developing leaders instead of simply creating followers.
Watch. Listen. Learn.
Short-form insights, interviews and conversations on leadership, career strategy and the inside game.
