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Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 12, Chapter 11: Saving The El Faro and Final Notes

In Chapter 11 Marquet uses his new playbook to reimagine how the El Faro could have been saved. This is the last chapter in Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 11, Chapter 10: The Red-Blue Operating System

Chapter 10 of Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t is titled, The Red-Blue Operating System. Marquet starts this chapter with the... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 10, Chapter 9: Applying the Redwork-Bluework Principles in Workplace Situations

In Chapter 9 of  Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t, Marquet provides several examples of using the new plays. As a... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 9 Chapter 8: The Enabling Play: Connect

This Chapter of  Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t begins with the story of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The disaster may... Read More

Work Intake: Sequencing As Micromanagement

Prioritization and sequencing often get conflated. Work might be important but if it has predecessors and successors it will require sequencing. You can’t deploy a new piece of hardware unless... Read More

Leadership is Language  Re-read Saturday, Week 8 Chapter 7: Completing the Cycle: Improve

The improve play is one of the most powerful aspects of Marquet’s suggested framework. Improve is chapter 7 of Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say –... Read More