Insights
Frameworks and field notes on leadership discovery.
Practitioner essays on executive search, leadership, and the frameworks behind The Human Method.
Books
All 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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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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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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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.
Articles
Deliberate essays on the design of leadership, judgment, and executive work.
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April 7, 2026
Domains Of Competence: Ability, Capability, And Capacity
Learn how the Domains of Competence —Ability, Capability, and Capacity —prevent mis-staffed initiatives, brittle scaling, and stalled strategy.
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April 7, 2026
Judgment Under Authority: Milgram Obedience, Accountability, And Decision Rights
A lot of bad decisions don’t start with bad people. They start with Milgram obedience —a setup where someone feels like they’re deciding, but someone else…
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April 7, 2026
Preferred Approach To Work Under Uncertainty: A Plain-English Overview
When things are clear, most people can follow a process and do solid work. When things are unclear—new market shifts, messy customer signals, incomplete…
Posts
Shorter market notes and observations from executive search across Mexico and the US.
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July 4, 2026
Retained vs. Traditional Executive Search in Mexico: When It's Worth It
When retained executive search in Mexico is worth the investment versus contingency recruiting. Criteria, process, fees, and the errors that cost the most.
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July 4, 2026
CEO recruitment in Mexico: what boards are looking for in 2026
What CEO profile Mexican boards are seeking in 2026: cross-border operators, family succession, and the judgment under autonomy the role demands.
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July 4, 2026
CFO recruitment in Mexico: profile, corridors, and expectations
How the CFO profile changes by corridor in Mexico: corporate Mexico City, family-owned Monterrey, and what boards are really looking for in 2026.
News
Announcements, partner meetings, and industry updates.
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