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Vision (6)

3 Circles: Determine Who You Become
Type
Visual Guide
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Identity is downstream of inputs. Change the three circles and you change who you become.
The Crossroads Decision Manual
Type
Working manual
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Do not force a ten-year answer out of one difficult season. Name the mismatch, protect what still belongs, and run the next honest test.
The Four-Source Fit Diagnostic
Type
Diagnostic
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The score is a clue. The evidence behind the score is the diagnosis.
The Next-Season Contribution Scorecard
Type
Scorecard / Fillable Decision Tool
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A smaller-looking role may create greater contribution, but it earns commitment through evidence, not excitement.
The Vision Integrity Audit
Type
Diagnostic / Workbook
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Vision does not disappear in one moment. It erodes quietly. This audit surfaces where yours has drifted so you can rebuild it on purpose.
What No Longer Fits? Signal Card
Type
One-page tool
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A role problem, rhythm problem, priority problem, and direction problem require different responses. Locate the mismatch before prescribing the change.

Identity (13)

Identity Operating Rules Audit
Type
Field Tool
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The rules that built your reputation are still running. Naming them is what turns automatic behavior back into a choice.
The 90-Day Transition Lab
Type
Transition Workbook / Field Guide
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Your final 90 days are not dead time. They can produce the evidence and trust that give your next decision more room.
The Calling vs. Container Map
Type
Identity and Direction Workbook
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A role can end without ending the contribution that is still yours to carry.
The Identity Separation Worksheet
Type
Worksheet
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
When role and identity fuse, every threat to the role becomes a threat to the self. This worksheet unfuses them.
The Income Bridge Portfolio
Type
Strategic Planning Workbook
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A bridge portfolio should buy decision room, not create a second full-time job.
The Independent Leader's Working Rhythm
Type
Workbook
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A six-page Inside Track workbook for former operators, retired CEOs, advisors, board members, writers and speakers: diagnose inherited urgency, map your portfolio and build a weekly cadence you govern yourself.
The Inner Loop Review
Type
Reflection Tool
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The most important leadership signals are the ones you almost dismissed. This tool catches them before they pass.
The Legacy Shift Sequence
Type
Framework / Visual Guide
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Legacy is not a final chapter. It is a daily audit of what you are actually building.
The Next-Season Portfolio Map
Type
Decision Tool
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The goal is not to avoid getting another job. The goal is to keep one job from being asked to solve every problem at once.
The Portable Experience Kit
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to Carry Forward, Leave Behind, Repurpose: translate experience into forms a new room recognizes, close the old chapter well, and carry credibility without the old title.
The Rough-Day Reset
Type
Reflection Tool
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A rough day is data, not automatically a verdict on your discipline, competence, or future.
The Shared Transition Kit
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Stability Floor: two separate conversations, a Fairness Ledger, small reversible tests, language for hard moments, and a weekly 15-minute check-in.
The Staged Exit Playbook
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Staged Exit Plan: a detailed runway calculator, bridge-income options, a 12-month staging calendar, conversation language, an exit-ready checklist, and integrity rules for finishing well.

Clarity (13)

16 Frameworks for the Mid-Career Leader
Type
Framework Collection
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Frameworks are not the answer. They are the shape that helps you find your own answer faster.
Before You Sell Part of Your Business: Inside Track Worksheet
Type
Worksheet
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A two-page Inside Track worksheet with structured evidence, decision authority, affected-person consequences and a seven-day review. Optional continuation of the free starter.
Clarity to Momentum Journey
Type
Visual Framework
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Momentum is a sequence, not a mood. Each shift is small on its own and decisive in order.
The Accountability and Governance Field Guide
Type
Field Guide
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A nine-page Inside Track field guide: named accountability roles, human review and appeal, an AI decision register and log, decision rights, board agendas, an escalation example, pre-approval questions and a 30-day rollout.
The Clarity Gap
Type
Visual Guide
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Clarity is not something you find. It is something you defend, one decision at a time.
The Clarity Gap Test — Companion Card
Type
Companion Card
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The three questions that surface where clarity has quietly gone missing, on a card you can use in five minutes.
The Family Business Leadership Decision: Inside Track Worksheet
Type
Worksheet
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A two-page Inside Track worksheet with structured evidence, decision authority, affected-person consequences and a seven-day review. Optional continuation of the free starter.
The Good Door Decision Board
Type
Worksheet / Decision Tool
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A good door still has to earn its place in your next season.
The Quarterly Clarity Drift Tracker
Type
Tracker / Worksheet
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Drift is invisible in the moment and obvious in the review. Run the review.
The Trust Repair Kit
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Six Month Truce: reset and escalation scripts, a reporting line request, a six month survival calendar, and when HR or a skip level leader should enter.
The Weekly Clarity Reset
Type
Practice / Worksheet
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Clarity is not something you find once. It is something you reset weekly.
When Loyalty and Accountability Collide: Inside Track Worksheet
Type
Worksheet
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A two-page Inside Track worksheet with structured evidence, decision authority, affected-person consequences and a seven-day review. Optional continuation of the free starter.
When You Are Asked to Change the Numbers: Inside Track Worksheet
Type
Worksheet
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A two-page Inside Track worksheet with structured evidence, decision authority, affected-person consequences and a seven-day review. Optional continuation of the free starter.

Focus (6)

Approval Queue Audit
Type
Audit Tool
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Most approvals that reach you are not judgment calls. They are missing standards wearing your name.
Decision Queue Triage Worksheet
Type
Worksheet / Decision Tool
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A decision without a named owner and a date is still sitting in your queue.
The Borrowed Priority Filter
Type
Worksheet / Decision Tool
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Fast doesn't mean it's yours. Test a priority before you fund it with a quarter of your time.
The Competence vs Direction Workbook
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Competence vs Direction Map: an hours map, the minimum excellent dose, a 90 day reallocation plan, the redirect conversation, and a reshape or exit check.
The Focus Filter Card
Type
Decision Tool / Companion Card
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Focus is not saying yes to the right things. It is saying no faster to the wrong ones.
The Priority Collision Framework
Type
Framework
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Priorities do not actually compete. Time does. Every collision is really a decision about which priority borrows time from which.

Alignment (2)

Alignment Assumption Audit
Type
Worksheet / Implementation Tool
Theme
Alignment
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A reusable tool for testing whether a commitment still matches the reality underneath it.
The Promotion Decision Kit
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Alignment
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Opportunity Life Test: weight what matters this season, plan the conditions to negotiate, test reversibility, and prepare the household and promotion conversations.

Momentum (4)

9 Leadership Breakpoints
Type
Visual Diagnostic
Theme
Momentum
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Progress rarely stops for one big reason. It stops at a specific breakpoint you can name.
Momentum Reset
Type
Workbook + Weekly Practice
Theme
Momentum
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Momentum returns faster when you subtract the right thing than when you add another initiative.
The Momentum Gap
Type
Guide / Worksheet
Theme
Momentum
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Not every slow week is lost momentum. This tells you which one you are actually in.
The Momentum Gap Test — Companion Card
Type
Companion Card
Theme
Momentum
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A pocket version of the check that separates a dip from a full stop.

Energy (3)

Design Your Career Around Energy
Type
Visual Guide
Theme
Energy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The wrong metric will build the wrong career. Energy is the metric that compounds.
Leadership Energy Reallocation Audit
Type
Inside Track Field Guide
Theme
Energy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Examine three recurring responsibilities, identify hidden attention costs, decide what to keep, redesign, transfer or end, write a responsible agreement and check the result after 14 days.
What Is Carrying You? Mid-Career Energy Diagnostic
Type
Diagnostic
Theme
Energy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Sustainable leadership is not about doing less. It is about knowing what is actually holding you up.

Systems (6)

Decision Transfer Map Companion Card
Type
Companion Card
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
If the decision does not move with the work, you have delegated effort, not ownership.
The 5-Question System Diagnostic
Type
Diagnostic
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Most system failures are not effort problems. They are unnamed handoffs and unowned decisions.
The Corporate to Owner Operating Manual
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Corporate to Owner Translation Check: 30 habit translations, an owner decision standard, a first 90 days operating rhythm, selling for leaders, and the title gap.
The Decision Transfer Map
Type
Framework / Worksheet
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Delegation without decision transfer is just supervised effort.
The Single Point of Failure Audit
Type
Diagnostic + Worksheet
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
If something can only run because you personally show up, you have not built a system. You have built a dependency.
The Weekly Rhythm Reset
Type
Inside Track Worksheet
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A practical leadership worksheet for changing a week that still works, but no longer fits. Daily anchors, weekly rhythms, what to protect, what to release and how to recharge.

Relationships (4)

The Feedback Formula
Type
Practice Tool
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The right feedback model is the one that fits the moment, not the one you always default to.
The Honest Room Kit
Type
Inside Track Companion Kit
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The deeper companion to The Safe to Disagree Check: a team candor pulse, a decision meeting protocol, leader response scripts, one on one prompts, a repair conversation, and a 30 day rebuild plan.
The Proximity Ledger
Type
One-page tool
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Most of the support you feel at work is proximity, not design. Proximity ends when the role does.
The Relationship Consequence & Conversation Map
Type
Worksheet
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Inside Track paid three-page worksheet for the conversations and handoffs a leadership role change creates.

Communication (2)

The Communication Stack Diagnostic and Practice Tracker
Type
Diagnostic & Practice Tracker
Theme
Communication
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The stack only holds weight built bottom-up. Clarity work done on a shaky foundation will not hold.
The Truth Gap
Type
Diagnostic
Theme
Communication
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The higher you rise, the more people manage what you hear. The only leaders who keep an accurate picture are the ones who deliberately build channels the filtering cannot close.

Growth (2)

The Growth Flywheel
Type
Visual Guide
Theme
Growth
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Growth stalls when one of the three inputs quietly goes dark. Keep the flywheel spinning.
The Plateau Break Diagnostic
Type
Diagnostic + Practice Tracker
Theme
Growth
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A plateau is not laziness. It is what happens when you get good enough that nothing forces you to keep growing anymore.

Legacy (3)

The Judgment Transfer Decision Brief
Type
Fillable Decision Brief
Theme
Legacy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A transferred decision needs one owner, three boundaries, and one honest review.
The Legacy Statement Workbook
Type
Workbook
Theme
Legacy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Legacy is not what people say at your retirement party. It is what still runs correctly the first Monday you are not there.
The Wisdom Transfer Map
Type
Workbook
Theme
Legacy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Legacy is not a handover document. It is judgment practiced by other people while you are still here to coach the reps.

On the Porch (14)

For resources that serve the whole journey rather than a single theme.

A Leadership Season Reassessment
Type
Inside Track Field Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A one-page decision card for the leader whose results still look strong, but the price of producing them has changed. Check recovery, spillover, adaptability, and meaning, then decide.
Designing Your Second Act, Section One: Weigh the Loads Your Former Role Carried
Type
Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Section One of Designing Your Second Act: the Five Loads Audit, your financial floor, and what your former role cost you. A complete section of the seven-section tool, included for Inside Track (paid membership) members.
Designing Your Second Act, Section Two: What Has Not Changed?
Type
Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Section Two of Designing Your Second Act: identity, values, and the work that still belongs to you, after the title goes. A complete section of the seven-section tool, included for Inside Track (paid membership) members.
Holding a Friend Accountable: The 30 Day Plan
Type
Inside Track Worksheet
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A four week plan for the leader who now supervises a friend. Reset standards, hold the first correction, log patterns, and check when the friendship and the role start pulling against each other.
Recovery Is a Leadership Design Problem
Type
Inside Track Field Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A three-page field experiment distinguishing lower effort from smarter use of an experienced leader, for the leader who needs longer to switch off than before.
The Company of One
Type
Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
An advanced operating and governance system for experienced leaders now running independent businesses or serving multiple clients. Covers demand and pricing, conflict boundaries, administrative coverage, decision aging, independent challenge, continuity, owner capacity, and copy-ready worksheets.
The Decision Conversation Brief
Type
Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A four-move protocol for deciding alone: say the decision out loud, hear the counter-case first, answer in one sentence, and let the helper file the record.
The Director Transition Plan: 90 Days
Type
Inside Track Worksheet
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A 30, 60 and 90 day plan for a first Director level role: handoff list, decision log, stakeholder map, and the expectations conversation with your own boss.
The Hidden Cost of Excellent Performance
Type
Inside Track Field Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
When results stay strong but the cost of producing them changes. A four-page discussion paper on what performance measures miss and the conditions required to keep producing it.
The Promotion Case File
Type
Inside Track Worksheet
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Collect the criteria in the decision maker's own words, log evidence weekly, plan each gap, and decide whether to stay, wait, or look elsewhere.
The Seasons of Contribution Field Guide
Type
Inside Track Field Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A five-page field guide for experienced leaders and decision-makers on separating observable behavior from the story attached to it, without turning age into a label.
The Seat Fit Review
Type
Inside Track Worksheet
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A 30 day test, a skill gap versus fit gap check, the conversation with your boss, and a day 60 decision.
The Trust Repair Plan
Type
Inside Track Worksheet
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Rebuild the true timeline, speak to each person affected, and run a 60 day checkpoint schedule after you overstated progress.
What Performance Reviews Miss
Type
Inside Track Field Guide
Theme
On the Porch
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A two-page argument for evaluating the sustainability of leadership, not merely quarterly results, and treating hidden private sacrifice as a role design question.

Book Summaries (44)

Vision (4)

Build a Business You Love
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Grow it on purpose, or it will grow you by accident.
Start with Why
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
People do not follow what you do; they follow why you do it.
Storytelling for Business
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A leader without a story is just a source of information.
Zero to One
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Vision
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Real progress goes from zero to one, not one to n.

Identity (15)

Being Mortal
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A good life — and a good ending — asks better questions than more time.
Linchpin
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The safest place is no longer safe — the linchpin does work that cannot be outsourced.
Meditations
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
You do not need more information; you need to act on what you already know.
The 48 Laws of Power
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
See the power moves; choose which ones you refuse to make.
The Courage to Be Disliked
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
You are free the moment you stop auditioning.
The Laws of Human Nature
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
You lead people better when you stop being surprised by them.
The Mountain Is You
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The pattern you keep running into is usually the pattern you are.
The Practice
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Trust the process — ship the work — the results are none of your business.
The Pursuit of God
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Depth on the inside; steadiness on the outside.
The Second Mountain
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The Soul of Money
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Sufficiency is a stance, not a balance. When you name what is enough, resources start moving toward what matters.
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
What you see clearly changes when you slow down enough to see it.
The Way of Excellence
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Excellence is what you can sustain, not what you can spike.
Transitions
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Change is external; transition is internal — and it is the transition that decides who you become.
Your Leadership Legacy
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Identity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Your legacy is not what you accomplished; it is what still runs when you leave.

Clarity (2)

The Art of Thinking Clearly
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Name the bias in the room before it names the decision.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Clarity
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Slow down the decisions that matter; automate the ones that don't.

Focus (4)

10% Happier
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
You do not need to become a different person. A small, consistent practice takes enough noise down for better judgment to show up.
Talk Like TED
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Great talks are emotional, novel, and memorable — in that order.
The 1-Page Marketing Plan
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A marketing plan you can see on one page is a plan you can actually run.
When
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Focus
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Timing is not a soft skill; it is a leadership discipline.

Momentum (2)

Grit
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Momentum
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
What looks like talent up close is almost always endurance from a distance.
Shoe Dog
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Momentum
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Endurance and belief compound long before the numbers do.

Energy (2)

Buy Back Your Time
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Energy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
If you are still doing it, it is because you have not yet decided it is worth replacing.
High Performance Habits
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Energy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Sustainable beats intense; every quarter.

Systems (6)

Content Inc.
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Build the audience, then build the offer — not the other way around.
Good to Great
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Great is a discipline of people, focus, and compounding action.
How to Grow Your Small Business
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
A growing business runs on installed systems, not personal effort.
Inside Apple
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Culture is the operating system; everything else is UI.
Profit First
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Pay yourself first. Then let the business live inside what is left.
The Millionaire Next Door
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Systems
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Wealth is the byproduct of quiet, repeated choices — not visible ones.

Execution (1)

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Execution
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The hard things stay hard; the leader gets steadier.

Relationships (4)

Leaders Eat Last
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Leaders eat last because trust is the price of everyone else's best work.
Multipliers
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The best leaders do not add intelligence to the room; they extract it.
Surrounded by Idiots
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
The person isn't wrong; your default style just doesn't translate.
The 5 Levels of Leadership
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Relationships
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Title gets you the room; the next level is earned in it.

Communication (1)

Never Split the Difference
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Communication
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Slow it down; the deal is in the listening.

Growth (1)

From Strength to Strength
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Growth
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Your next chapter is not a diminished version of the first. It is a different kind of strength that has to be intentionally chosen.

Legacy (2)

Leadership in Turbulent Times
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Legacy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Crisis exposes the leader you have quietly been becoming.
The Psychology of Money
Type
Book Summary
Theme
Legacy
Access
Inside Track (paid membership)
Behavior compounds louder than strategy.