Leaders Are Leverage
A mantra to invest in developing leaders to maximize your impact
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Close The Loop
A mantra to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
The Sulzberger Program
Build strategy. Shape culture. Lead journalism into a more sustainable future. The Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School is a 20-week accelerator for senior leaders in journalism and media. Fellows bring their organization's most pressing strategic challenge into the program and leave with a refined
Talk To People, Not About People
A mantra to ensure direct, respectful communication
Embrace Constraints
A mantra to expand what’s possible by working with what’s not
Align On Quality
A mantra to define what excellence looks like before the work begins
Empower Others
A mantra to push decisions down and let your people own the outcome
Make Tradeoffs Explicit
A mantra to force-rank your priorities early, often, and out loud
Let The User Decide
A mantra to keep us coming back to the user to guide our work
Tell User-Centered Stories
A mantra to ground your team’s strategies in real customer needs
Know Your Point C
A mantra to ensure everyone knows where you're headed and why
The Mantra Dashboard
A playbook to proactively lead your team across seven essential categories
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The Mantra Ladder
A way to turn goals into mantras
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Make Expectations Explicit
A mantra to turn implicit norms into shared standards
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Flare Before You Focus
A mantra to widen thinking before narrowing to decisions
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You Own Your Role, We Own The Outcome
A mantra to clarify ownership while reinforcing shared responsibility
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Celebrate Behaviors, Not Just Outcomes
A mantra to reinforce the behaviors and mindsets that lead to excellence
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Design For The Roller Coaster
A mantra to anticipate hard moments and design structures that make them safer
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Make Space for Every Voice
A mantra to widen participation and improve decision quality
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Lead With Vulnerability
A mantra to model uncertainty, learning, and humility
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Cultivate A Growth Mindset
A mantra to frame work as a learning problem, not an execution problem
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The Safety Levers
A framework to move your subculture from the Anxiety Zone to the Learning Zone
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Psychological Safety Is A Leadership Choice
A strategic imperative for building a subculture of innovation
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I Can’t See Inside Their Head
A mantra to stick to what you know is true in hard conversations