Manual № 75 · Leading when you no longer do the work

TheRoomYouAreNotIn

The manual for leading when you no longer do the work.

Your judgment now has to travel to rooms you will never sit in.

12 modules — for the leader whose work is now done entirely by other people

  1. 01The Second Transition
  2. 02What Is Not Yours to Carry Alone
  3. 03The Ground Truth You Lost
  4. 04A Way to Know That Does Not Undermine
  5. 05Direction Specific Enough to Act On Without You
  6. 06Which Decisions Are Actually Yours
  1. 07Delegating the Decision, Not the Task
  2. 08Managing Managers
  3. 09Hiring Managers, and the Evidence
  4. 10The Manager Who Is Not Working
  5. 11Peers, Politics, and the Work That Crosses Lines
  6. 12Building People Who Do Not Need You

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how strong the support for it actually is, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01The Ladder of Distortion
  2. 02The Skip-Level That Does Not Undermine
  3. 03The Hundred-Word Direction
  4. 04The Decision Rights Test
  5. 05The Authority Dial
  6. 06Building a Structured Interview for a Manager
  7. 07The Management Work Sample
  1. 08Feedback Aimed at the Work
  2. 09The Premortem
  3. 10The Outside View
  4. 11The Decision Journal
  5. 12The Calendar Audit
  6. 13The Message You Are Sick Of
  7. 14Psychological Safety, With Its Actual Limits

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.