The Leadership Playbook
Practical Leadership for Small Business Owners
Actionable strategies, proven frameworks, and real-world guides to help you lead your team, make better decisions, and grow your business with confidence.
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Six categories designed around the leadership development journey — from foundational skills to advanced executive capabilities.
Foundations
Core leadership principles, ownership mindset, and leadership styles for small business owners making the transition from operator to true leader.
Team Building
Hiring, delegation, feedback, and managing people — the critical skills that transform a group of employees into a high-performing team.
Decision-Making
Frameworks, prioritization, and strategic choices that help you make confident decisions — even with imperfect information.
Personal Development
Resilience, productivity, mindset, and work-life balance — because great leadership starts with leading yourself.
Executive Skills
Financial literacy, negotiation, communication, and the business acumen that separates good managers from great leaders.
Culture & Values
Company culture, values-driven leadership, vision-setting, and change management — building an organization people believe in.
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Our most comprehensive leadership guides — one for each core topic.
FoundationsThe Complete Guide to Ownership Mindset: How to Think Like a CEO - Even If You're a Solo Founder
The gap between "owning a business" and "leading like an owner" is where most small businesses stall. This comprehensive guide walks you through the mindset shifts, daily practices, and strategic frameworks that transform operators into true business leaders.
Team BuildingBuilding Your First Leadership Team: A Small Business Owner's Complete Playbook
You've hit the leadership capacity ceiling. This complete playbook walks you through building your first leadership team — from identifying the right roles, to developing internal leaders, to mastering delegation that actually works.
Decision-MakingThe Small Business Owner's Decision-Making Playbook: How to Make Better Choices Faster
Decision fatigue kills more small businesses than bad decisions do. This playbook gives you a complete, repeatable system for making confident, strategic choices — even when the data is incomplete and the stakes are high.
Personal DevelopmentThe Resilient Leader: How to Build Mental Toughness That Sustains You Through Every Stage of Small Business Ownership
Resilience isn't about toughing it out — it's a set of deliberate practices any small business owner can build. This guide delivers the four pillars of leadership resilience, recovery strategies, burnout warning signs, and actionable habits that sustain high performance across every stage of ownership.
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Personal DevelopmentThe Resilient Leader: How to Build Mental Toughness That Sustains You Through Every Stage of Small Business Ownership
Resilience isn't about toughing it out — it's a set of deliberate practices any small business owner can build. This guide delivers the four pillars of leadership resilience, recovery strategies, burnout warning signs, and actionable habits that sustain high performance across every stage of ownership.
Executive SkillsFinancial Acumen for Small Business Owners: The Complete Guide to Understanding Your Numbers and Leading with Confidence
You don't need an MBA to understand your business finances. This comprehensive guide breaks down the six essential financial metrics, three core financial statements, and the review habits that every small business owner needs to make confident, profitable decisions — and avoid the seven most expensive financial mistakes.
Culture & ValuesHow to Build a Strong Company Culture Without an HR Department: The Small Business Owner's Complete Guide
Your business already has a culture — the question is whether you designed it. This complete guide shows small business owners how to audit, define, and embed a values-driven culture that attracts talent, retains your best people, and drives performance — no HR department required.
Personal DevelopmentHow to Set Boundaries as a Small Business Owner Without Losing Clients or Employees
Well-set boundaries don't cost you clients or employees — they build the respect, predictability, and professional clarity that make you easier to work with, more trustworthy to work for, and more sustainable as a leader.
Culture & ValuesYour Company Values Are Just Words Until You Do This: A Small Business Owner's Complete Guide to Making Core Values Real
Defining values is only ten percent of the work. This guide covers the other ninety percent — the ongoing, practical work of making core values real in every decision, system, and conversation.
FoundationsThe Complete Guide to Ownership Mindset: How to Think Like a CEO - Even If You're a Solo Founder
The gap between "owning a business" and "leading like an owner" is where most small businesses stall. This comprehensive guide walks you through the mindset shifts, daily practices, and strategic frameworks that transform operators into true business leaders.
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