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<v Speaker 1>Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of

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<v Speaker 1>performance through strong human relations, team building, and golajieving. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul

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<v Speaker 1>Fello Aledo.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>It's episode five twenty seven. Today we're cracking open what

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<v Speaker 2>I call the leadership black file. This isn't illegal, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's not from some dark corner of the Internet. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the kind of knowledge that the top zero point one

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<v Speaker 2>percent of leaders know, use and guard closely. These aren't

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<v Speaker 2>the tips you get in a basic management seminar. This

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<v Speaker 2>is rare air and I'm about to let you in,

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<v Speaker 2>so grab a pen. You'll want to write these down.

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<v Speaker 2>Secret number one the OODLE loop weaponized speed. Originally created

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<v Speaker 2>by Air Force Colonel John Boyd. The ODE loop stands

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<v Speaker 2>for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. Most people think it's for

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<v Speaker 2>fighter pilots. The truth the world's best CEOs live in it.

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<v Speaker 2>They train their teams to act faster than the competition

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<v Speaker 2>can respond, and that speed becomes a weapon. So how

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<v Speaker 2>do you use it? Weekly leadership reviews where you process data,

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<v Speaker 2>adjust your view, make small decisions, and take microaction. Repeat constantly.

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<v Speaker 2>The goal is to become so nimble your competitors feel

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<v Speaker 2>like they're standing still. In Secret number two, the Barbell

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<v Speaker 2>strategy safe plus wild, and this comes from the black

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<v Speaker 2>Swan author that seem to lead elite performers protect their

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<v Speaker 2>downside with safe, low risk bets and reserve a small

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<v Speaker 2>piece of their resources for extremely high upside wild ideas.

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<v Speaker 2>How you use it keep your core systems, staff and

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<v Speaker 2>budget stable, but take five percent and invest it in

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<v Speaker 2>weird ideas, experimental tech, or moonshot thinking, because that's where

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<v Speaker 2>breakthroughs happen. Secret three the pre mortem failure in reverse.

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<v Speaker 2>Before any major initiative, the best leaders ask, it's six

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<v Speaker 2>months from now in this completely failed Why that's a

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<v Speaker 2>pre mortem and it's one of the fastest ways to

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<v Speaker 2>surface blind spots you never saw coming. So how do

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<v Speaker 2>you use it before a product, launch, a reorg, or

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<v Speaker 2>a new strategy. Gather your leadership team, run this scenario,

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<v Speaker 2>enlist every reason it failed, then start fixing it before

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<v Speaker 2>it be comes real. Secret number four is red teaming

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<v Speaker 2>punch holes in your own plans. Military and cybersecurity experts

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<v Speaker 2>use red teams to simulate an attack on their own systems.

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<v Speaker 2>Elite leaders do it with their strategies, So how do

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<v Speaker 2>you use it? Assign a small, trusted group to challenge

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<v Speaker 2>your plan like it's their job to destroy it. Make

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<v Speaker 2>them find cracks. You'd rather them expose it than the media,

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<v Speaker 2>the board, or your customers. Secret number five shadow boards

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<v Speaker 2>gen Z's secret weapon. Companies like Gucci, Prada, in some

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<v Speaker 2>of the world's most elite firms, use shadow boards made

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<v Speaker 2>up of younger talent. These teams don't replace the c suite,

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<v Speaker 2>but they give raw, unfiltered feedback to keep executives from

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<v Speaker 2>going blind to trends. How you use it. Create a

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<v Speaker 2>group of sharp young minds in your organization. Let them

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<v Speaker 2>audit ideas, strategies, and even culture. Then they'll tell you

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<v Speaker 2>what your leadership team is too far removed to see.

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<v Speaker 2>Secret number six Meta leadership beyond your org chart. Real

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<v Speaker 2>power doesn't live inside your org chart. It lives in networks.

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<v Speaker 2>Meta leaders are the ones who can lead across departments, organizations,

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<v Speaker 2>and even industries. How you use it. List every external

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<v Speaker 2>person or organization you regularly interact with, then ask how

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<v Speaker 2>am I leading them to influence? Doesn't stop at your title.

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<v Speaker 2>Secret number seven The five percent rule budget for what's next.

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<v Speaker 2>Elite leaders set aside five percent of their time, money,

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<v Speaker 2>or people purely to build future capabilities, even if there's

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<v Speaker 2>no immediate return. How you use it dedicate five percent

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<v Speaker 2>of your monthly budget or schedule to training, AI, exploration,

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<v Speaker 2>culture reinforcement, or blue sky thinking. It's the most consistent

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<v Speaker 2>difference between flatlined companies and legacy builders. In secret number eight,

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<v Speaker 2>the second order mindset, most leaders stop at what happens next?

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<v Speaker 2>The best keep going, asking and then what, and then what? So?

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<v Speaker 2>How do you use it? Build the habit of asking

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<v Speaker 2>second and third order questions after every big decision. You'll

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<v Speaker 2>avoid unintended consequences and lead with foresight. Secret number nine

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<v Speaker 2>is oblique strategies lateral thinking. Under pressure, musician Brian Eno

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<v Speaker 2>made a deck of cards with strange prompts to break

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<v Speaker 2>creative blocks. Some leaders and hedge fund managers use the

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<v Speaker 2>same idea to shake up stuck thinking. So how do

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<v Speaker 2>you use it when you're gridlocked? Ask a totally different question,

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<v Speaker 2>Flip the problem, add a bizarre constraint, challenge your default assumptions.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not silly, it's strategic chaos. In number ten, the

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<v Speaker 2>leader's log. This is your black box recorder. Elite pilots

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<v Speaker 2>have black boxes, Elite leaders keep black logs. It's a private,

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<v Speaker 2>brutally honest diary of decisions, emotions, wins and losses, and

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<v Speaker 2>how do you use it? Start with one sentence a day.

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<v Speaker 2>After ninety days, go back and read it. You'll find

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<v Speaker 2>patterns in how you think, decide, and lead. It's the

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<v Speaker 2>mirror you've been avoiding. So these tactics aren't found in

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<v Speaker 2>the first ten pages of a leadership book, and chances

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<v Speaker 2>are you don't have a boss that will teach them

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<v Speaker 2>to you. They're from the deep end where all the

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<v Speaker 2>elite leaders are currently operating from. They're what the zero

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<v Speaker 2>point one percent are doing while the rest are just

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<v Speaker 2>reading about it and wondering why those people are successful.

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<v Speaker 2>And they're not just doing it once in a while.

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<v Speaker 2>This is their battle plan every day. So start using

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<v Speaker 2>and incorporating these tactics and you'll begin to operate in

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<v Speaker 2>a completely different league. This has been the seven minute

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<v Speaker 2>Leadership Podcast, and I thank you for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>For more Paul Fell of Alito Podcasts, visit paulfellowalito dot com.