Leadership Optimization

Where is leadership actually operating here?

Thirty-two questions, about nine minutes — or sixteen questions and about five, if nobody reports to you. Every question asks what has happened rather than how strongly you agree with something, because you can inflate an agreement scale and you cannot invent a memory.

It reports four lenses — Influence, Presence, Candor and Development — and it never averages them. Your stage is your lowest lens, not your overall picture.

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That is the whole reason this is worth taking honestly: the gap between what leadership sees and what everybody else sees is the most useful thing it produces, and it only shows up if you answer straight.

Does anyone report to you?
Do people here come to you for help or advice even though they do not report to you?

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Leadership Optimization · your result

Your four lenses

Reported separately and never averaged. An average is the one number that hides everything worth knowing.

What this means

Everything this points to

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