The First Principle
How you interact daily in your context drives your results. Not the programme. Not the title. The interaction is the unit of value exchange — and everyone starts as a follower.
The amount of content you consume does not improve how you contribute based on what you demonstrate.
Start Here
The practice is not a programme. It is one question, asked every morning, in your context, inside whatever you are already doing.
The Daily Question
How will I interact today?
Answer it in the morning. Capture what you did and what happened. Apply it inside whatever you are already using — Lean, Agile, a weekly standup, a one-on-one. The practice does not replace your framework. It runs inside it.
Deliberate interactions are not a new methodology. They are the behavioral layer that determines whether your current methodology actually works. The interaction is where value is created or destroyed — not the strategy, not the org chart, not the programme.
The only question is whether you are willing to practice it daily.
Kit Bag
These are not surveys. They are a perception baseline. Everyone answers the same questions about the same system. The differences in the answers are the data — and the data tells you where to work.
Collective
Goldratt — Six Questions
Leadership and followership are a technology. Goldratt's rule: technology brings benefit only if it eliminates a real limitation — and only if the rules built around the old limitation are changed. These six questions are a technology audit. Everyone writes independently. The differences in answers are the data.
Collective
Drucker — Five Questions
Same process. Everyone writes independently, then you compare. The gaps between what different people write about mission, customer, and contribution reveal exactly where the organisation is misaligned.
Individual
Managing Oneself — HBR
This one is yours alone. Not a group exercise. Your strengths, how you perform, what you value, where you belong. Begin the feedback analysis: write what you expect from a key decision. Check the result later.
The full architecture, the collective diagnostic guide, the Wardley Map, and the book.
Share What You Find
Not as an abstract concept. As an operational reality in your context. What decisions could you make without checking? What conversations could you skip? What truths could you tell?
Take the instruments into your context. Share what the diagnostic revealed. Your findings make the approach stronger for everyone who comes after you.