The Leadership Lab
Your organization is growing faster than your leadership can.
A weekly note for people who have become the bottleneck in the thing they built. The frameworks, the diagnostics and the hard questions behind the book, applied to whatever is actually breaking. Free.
Every Tuesday
One idea, and something to do with it
No launch sequences and no funnel. One piece a week, occasionally a note when something new is finished. Leave whenever you like.
Where it appears
Published here, then everywhere else
From now on each piece goes up on this site first. The Substack and LinkedIn versions follow, pointed back here, so the search credit accrues to the domain I own rather than to a platform that could change its mind.
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Substack
The Leadership Lab
The full archive lives here for now, including everything published before the site existed. Weekly, free.
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LinkedIn
Matt Goode
Shorter pieces, the frameworks in practice, and a weekly newsletter. Where most of the professional conversation happens.
The long versions
Three books, one argument
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Out now
CLUTCH
How Leaders Build Systems That Run Without Them. The operating system, in full, with a diagnostic for every part of it.
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Out now
Field Tested
Seventy facilitation methods across seven categories, each one used in a real room under real consequence before it earned a page.
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Coming 2027
No Average Brain
Neuroinclusive leadership. Why the systems we build assume one kind of mind, and what changes when they stop.
Next step
Reading is cheaper than consulting. It is also slower
If you would rather skip to the part where somebody looks at your actual operation, that is a thirty-minute call.