Benjamin Lawrie · Resources
Practical, free and deliberately short. Diagnostics, templates and conversation scripts drawn from Like Putting Roller Skates on a Hippo and Lead Like Nobody's Watching, plus a few extra tools I use myself.
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Interactive · 5 minutes
Twenty questions to ask at the start of any change programme, or about the one you're in now. Be honest: the point isn't to pass, it's to find the gaps. Score each question on whether you could give a clear answer.
Quick reference
Four ways organisations look busy without moving the real problem. Find the one in your meeting.
Templates · copy, paste, adapt
Seven working templates. Open one, hit copy, paste it into your own document. Use as much or as little as helps.
Chapters 9 and 11
The methodology is the easy part. The conversations are where it lives or dies. Lines that tend to work, and what to avoid.
From Lead Like Nobody's Watching
Every chapter in the book follows the same four steps: the character, the amplified pattern, the real-world mechanism, the application. Use them on any leader, fictional or real, from a series you love to someone in your own building.
The books behind the tools
The tools are the short version. The books carry the argument.
Why organisational change fails, and what to do instead. Twenty-five years leading technology transformation in UK financial services, distilled into the patterns behind change efforts that stall.
What eighteen fictional leaders reveal about managing real people: the exemplars and the cautionary tales, from Ted Lasso to Logan Roy, tied back to real teams.
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