THE CAPTAIN'S METHOD™Five shelves. One method.
Guest Thinker
Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor and Stoic
Marcus Aurelius left the Meditations, the private notebook of a Roman emperor training his own judgment through war, plague and power.
Socrates / Plato
Aristotle
Martin Buber
William James
EM
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Daniel Kahneman
FH
Frederick Herzberg
Viktor E. Frankl
Carl Jung
John Dewey
DH
Donella H. Meadows
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epictetus
Friedrich Nietzsche
Immanuel Kant
Hannah Arendt
Karl Popper
Lao Tzu
Søren Kierkegaard
BU
Brenda Ueland
ET
Edward T. Hall
Contemporary sources
Personality
How we see the whole thingThe stance a leader takes toward life and work. Character, meaning and interpretation decide what everything else is for.
Focus
How we build capacityAttention, perception and judgment. What a leader learns to see decides what they can learn to do.
Capacity
How we build the systemsSkills built through practice. Competence is what lets a leader design and run the systems around them.
Systems
How we shape the environmentStrategy, structure, constraints and rules. The systems a leader builds create the environment people work in.
Environment
The people and the structure they live inTeams, cultures and societies. The field people operate in shapes how they behave, for better or worse.