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Each part of the methodology was introduced in a book, published as it was built, from 2009 to 2026.
Luck isn’t random, and it isn’t earned by working harder. It’s what happens when a person gets good at seeing opportunity where others see routine, and at putting themselves where opportunity gathers. The book sets out four skills of opportunity management — see, sow, grow and share — and argues that opportunity is a discipline rather than a gift. It also introduced serendipity environments: the rooms and networks where opportunity becomes abundant because people are known well enough to be connected to it. Seventeen years on, that idea is where the whole method now points.
Organizations kept asking for innovation while running systems designed to prevent it. This book named the reason: innovation is not a process to install but a mentality to unleash, and it lives in individuals rather than in departments. It sets out six strategies — the inspiration to see opportunity in everything, the flexibility to anticipate the unexpected, the freedom to unleash passionate pursuits, the room to live with an entrepreneurial spirit, the trust to work with a generous purpose, and the respect to lead to leave a legacy. Each names something the environment must provide and what the individual does with it. A full chapter is given to the four questions that define a leader’s personal brand.
Standardization built the modern organization and cannot carry it forward alone. This is the book that named the shift and gave it a method: five changes an environment must make to work for individuals rather than for a standard everyone is measured against, from diversity to inclusion, tribal to human, brand identity to individual identities, mission to contribution, and results to methods. It was published in 2019, six years before the data caught up, and it remains the spine of the methodology that carries its name.
Knowing the five shifts is not the same as knowing where your organization actually sits within them. This book supplies the instrument: five indicators, one question beneath each shift. Who do you let in? How do you see them? Who do you let them be? What do you let them do? How do you let them do it? They measure behavior rather than intent, which is why they’re uncomfortable to answer honestly. The goal was never to abandon standardization but to find the right balance within each shift, and these are how you find it.
Most people reinvent when something forces them to. This book argues for the opposite: reinvention as a practice you run on purpose, before the crisis, from a position you own. Six skills carry it — discover, know, pursue, build, trust and lead — organized in two movements, expanding yourself and then multiplying your impact through others. Underneath them runs a continuous cycle of learn, unlearn, relearn, repeat. Published in English and Spanish.
Confidence can be performed. Conviction has to be earned, and most capable leaders have been rewarded so long for the first that they’ve quietly lost the second. This book names that condition the Conviction Crisis and treats the remedy as practice rather than insight. It is built in five parts — who you are, how you grow, how you lead, what you create, and leading with conviction — across thirteen chapters, each earning the conviction to do one thing: to lead from who you actually are, to act while afraid, to get uncomfortable, to build environments where better ideas survive. The last chapter makes the argument explicit: conviction isn’t earned through reading, it’s earned through practice.
Every framework in these books is defined, with its source, in the glossary. The leaders putting them to work are in the Interview Archive.
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His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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