Leadership
BigCat's Leadership Craft
Concrete scripts · Decision frameworks · Coaching practice
Day 01
Designing 1:1s
Agenda · Trust · Real signal · Beyond status
Day 02
The Craft of Feedback
Radical Candor · SBI · Now vs Later · Channel
Day 03
The Craft of Perf Review
Anatomy · Calibration · Bias · Why not Exceeds
Day 04
The Craft of Hard Conversations
Three layers · Firing · Promo denial · Blameless PM
Day 05
The Craft of Hiring
Bar raising · Structured interview · Scorecard · Rejection
Day 06
Office Politics 101
Power map · Player types · Stakeholder grid · Reciprocity
Day 07
The Art of Disagreement
Worth the fight · 7 phrasings · Escalation ladder · Disagree & commit
Day 08
Cross-Functional Influence
Currencies · Stakeholder map · Pre-wiring · Make it their win
Day 09
Managing Up
Read the calculus · Self-advocacy · One-page memo · Shit umbrella
Day 10
Sun Tzu in Org Politics
Court calculus · Strike the void · Know yourself · Win before the meeting
Day 11
Stoic Work Survival
Dichotomy of control · Premeditatio malorum · Obstacle as material · Daily 10-min loop
Day 12
Onboarding
30/60/90 map · First-30-days early win · Network & tacit culture · Fresh eyes
Day 13
Delegation
Delegation matrix · 7-level trust ladder · Give the monkey back · Guardrails not surveillance
Day 14
Coaching
GROW model · Advice monster · 7 power questions · When not to coach
Day 15
Decision Architecture
One-way vs two-way door · RAPID · DACI · Disagree & commit
Day 16
Strategy & Direction
North Star metric · OKR design · Strategy memo · Embracing uncertainty
Day 17
Team Meetings
Meeting taxonomy · Standup vs all-hands · Facilitation · Cut & async
Day 18
Async Culture & Doc-First
One-page memo · RFC culture · ADR records · Cutting meeting load
Day 19
Conflict Resolution
Task vs relationship conflict · Mediator not judge · Hand it back · Clean escalation
Day 20
Leading Under Pressure
The first hour · Delivering layoffs · Blameless postmortems · Aftershock & self-command
Day 21
Psychological Safety
Safety ≠ niceness · Leader goes first · Engineer dissent · Artificial harmony
Day 22
Identity Beyond Title
Role ≠ identity · Single point of failure · Identity portfolio · Title-free intro drill
Day 23
Impermanence at Work
Impermanence as default · Dichotomy of control · Pre-written Plan B · Don't outsource security
Day 24
Envy & Comparison
Envy targets peers · Benign vs malicious · Choose your frame · Mudita
Day 25
Failure & Shame
Shame vs guilt · Public-failure narrative · CV of failures · The three P's
Day 26
Active Listening & Premise Alignment
Four levels of listening · Surface the premise · Load-bearing first · Fact vs value claim
Day 27
Survival for the Apolitical
The cost of opting out · Minimum viable politics · Limits of letting work speak · Win through allies
Day 28
Ethical Boundaries & Saying No
Three-layer triage · Refusal spectrum · Sunlight email · Exit/Voice/Loyalty
Day 29
Meaning at Work
Three-source diagnostic · Bullshit-job moments · Job crafting · Don't outsource it
Day 30
Luck & Attribution
Talent+luck · Survivorship on yourself · Humility as calibration · Luck in the retro
Day 31
Playing the Long Game
Finite vs infinite games · What compounds · Valley of disappointment · Long-term people
Day 32
The Undervalued Years
Psychology of being overlooked · Visibility vs hype · Discipline of quiet accumulation · When to walk
Day 33
Money & Career Freedom
FU money as option · Buffer as BATNA · Lifestyle inflation · Freedom is an option not escape
Day 34
Diversity & Inclusion
In-the-moment intervention · De-bias the system · Data-driven funnel · Sponsorship over symbolism
Day 35
The Cost of Authenticity
Mask as social interface · Adaptive authenticity · The line you don't cross · When the mask fuses
Day 36
Team Building & Cohesion
Rituals compound · Off-sites for in-person work · Celebrate progress not outcomes · Belonging ≠ sameness
Day 37
Leadership Style
Switch six styles · Match the person (SLII) · Dose of vulnerability · Authenticity paradox
Day 38
Time Management for Leaders
Maker vs manager schedule · Calendar defense · Scripts for saying no · Deep-work blocks
Day 39
Strategy vs Execution
The strategy kernel · From firefighting to prevention · A weekly zoom-out cadence · The hidden invoice of short-termism
Day 40
Building Company Culture
Culture is what you reward · Schein's 3 levels · A testable contract · Founder's mentality · The culture handoff
Day 41
Startup vs Big-Company Leadership
Wartime vs peacetime · Two muscles · The intrapreneur's trap · Unload & rebuild
Day 42
Women in Leadership
The double bind · The Lean In debate · The invisible tax & credit · Sponsorship vs the motherhood penalty
Day 43
Career Strategy
Scarce×strong positioning · Promotion is lagging · Manager/IC pendulum · Pivot & stop-loss timing