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Books
These books explore leadership, capability, and organizational design as practical disciplines for people who carry consequential work. Each volume offers language, frameworks, and judgment tools to help executives, boards, and teams navigate complexity, align talent with strategy, and build organizations where performance, trust, and meaningful contribution can endure over time.
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2025
The Leadership Competency Playbook
Mastering Competencies Across Levels of Work
A practical framework to assess and develop leadership competencies aligned with strategy, culture, and the levels of work an executive is expected to perform. Built around the DOES model (Design, Organize, Execute, Sustain), the playbook translates abstract leadership qualities into behavioral indicators, rubrics, interview guides, and development plans — with real-world case studies and integration with assessments like Hogan.
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2026
The Capability Advantage
Building an Organization Complexity Can't Break
A practical book about the difference between ability, capability, and capacity — and why organizations that confuse them pay in rework, bottlenecks, and quiet exhaustion. Uses cases like Zoom's 2020 trust reset to show how visible trade-offs and decision discipline build capability that holds under pressure.
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2026
Selling By Design
A Smarter Way to Hire, Deploy, and Grow Talent for Sales Success
Most sales problems come from some combination of role design, hiring, deployment, and development — not raw willpower. Selling By Design is a practical framework for aligning sales talent to revenue strategy using the Luks Prisma model.