Leadership

Most leadership advice is about the leader: habits, style, presence. These essays look at the other half, the systems a leader builds and tolerates. In a public agency or a nonprofit, those systems outlast any one director, and they decide whether good intentions turn into results.

Read here about culture as the sum of what you tolerate, communication as what happens after the meeting, and the questions leaders skip when they are busy. Each piece ends with something you can try on Monday.

Start here: What If the System Is the Problem? Deming Was Right — And Here’s What Systems Leadership Looks Like