Free guide
The whole system, in one document
The Communication Protocol, all 12 Wisdom Principles, and the four Leadership Tools. Written by the founders of a worker-directed company to run their own company. Free, and yours to keep.
What's inside
Everything, in teaching order
The Communication Protocol
Three steps, in order: understand yourself, understand each other, then seek a solution together. This is the spine of everything else.
The 12 Wisdom Principles
The values that make the protocol actually work, each one documented with best practices, goals, anti-goals, and the ways people get it wrong.
The 4 Leadership Tools
One-on-ones, feedback, targeted conversations, and solution seeking sessions: how to apply the protocol as someone responsible for a team.
How to build your own tools
The system is meant to be adapted. The guide shows you how to design practices that fit your own organization.
Who it's for
You'll recognize yourself if
- You are a first-time manager and the hard conversations are the part nobody trained you for
- Your team keeps having the same argument, and every "resolution" quietly evaporates
- You run a co-op, a nonprofit, or a small company, and you want decisions people actually accept
- You just want to stop dreading one specific conversation
Prefer to just talk it through?
The guide is a book, and books take time you might not have if a conversation is looming tomorrow. The Guide assistant walks you through the same system for your actual situation, and you can start with 3 messages and no account.
Try the Guide instead