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- 10-10-10 Rule - A decision-making framework that evaluates choices by considering how you will feel about them in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years.
- 3x3 Template - A structured writing framework that organizes content into three components: defining the 'what', outlining 'how' in 3 steps, and explaining 'why' with 3 reasons.
- ABCD Framework - A structured feedback framework using four key questions: Awesome, Boring, Confusing, and Didn't believe.
- ACE Framework - Action, Context, Experience - a framework for structuring decisions and learning.
- ADKAR Model - A change management framework: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement.
- Agile Manifesto - A foundational declaration of values and principles for iterative, collaborative software development.
- Autonomous Framework - A personal work philosophy focused on maximizing autonomy by minimizing distractions and maximizing ownership, options, and leverage.
- Bloom's Taxonomy - A hierarchy of learning objectives from basic recall to higher-order synthesis and creation.
- Business as a System - A mental model that views a business not just as a product or legal entity, but as an interconnected system of processes, channels, and components.
- Business Model Canvas - A strategic template for developing new or documenting existing business models.
- Cardinal Virtues - The four principal virtues in classical philosophy: prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude.
- Choice Architecture - The design of how choices are presented, which profoundly influences the decisions people make.
- The Circle of Learning - A cyclical framework describing how learning progresses through experience, reflection, conceptualization, and experimentation.
- C.O.D.E.C - Capture, Organise, Deconstruct, Emerge, Create - a knowledge management workflow.
- From Collector to Creator - The transformative journey from passively collecting information to actively creating original work, using PKM as a bridge between consumption and creation.
- Continuous Community Framework - A model for building sustained engagement and value in communities over time.
- CORE Creativity Model - A creativity framework: Collect, Organize, Reflect, Express.
- Core Human Drives - Five fundamental motivations that drive all human behavior: the drives to Acquire, Bond, Learn, Defend, and Feel.
- DACI Framework - Driver, Approver, Contributors, Informed - a decision-making accountability framework.
- Design Thinking Process - A human-centered problem-solving methodology with five iterative phases.
- DevOps Manifesto - Principles promoting collaboration between development and operations teams for faster, more reliable software delivery.
- Dewey Decimal System - A library classification system organizing knowledge into ten main classes.
- DIKW Pyramid - A hierarchy showing the progression from Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom.
- Double Diamond Process - A design framework with four phases: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver.
- Effort vs Impact - A prioritization matrix that evaluates tasks based on their effort requirements and potential impact.
- Eisenhower Matrix - A prioritization framework using urgency and importance to categorize tasks.
- Empathy Canvas - A design thinking tool for understanding users' thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
- Entrepreneurship Toolbelt - The essential skills, knowledge, and resources that entrepreneurs need to build and grow businesses.
- Expected Value - A probability-weighted average of all possible outcomes used to make rational decisions under uncertainty.
- Fast and Frugal Heuristics - Simple decision rules that use minimal information yet often outperform complex analysis in uncertain environments.
- FILE Framework - Information should be easy to File, Identify, Locate, and Retrieve.
- Five Hat Racks - A fundamental design principle identifying the five key ways to organize any information, summarized by the LATCH acronym.
- Four Noble Truths - The Buddha's core teaching on the nature of suffering and the path to liberation.
- Four Pillars of Creativity - Anne-Laure Le Cunff's framework identifying Capture, Practice, Create, and Share as essential elements for nurturing creativity.
- Futures Wheel - A visual brainstorming tool for exploring the cascading consequences of a change or decision.
- Give and Take - Adam Grant's framework describing three reciprocity styles: givers, takers, and matchers.
- GROW Model - A structured coaching framework using Goal, Reality, Options, and Will stages.
- HERO Model - An acronym representing four core values for positive workplace interactions and personal relationships: Honesty, Empathy, Respect, and Open-mindedness.
- High Performance Habits - Brendon Burchard's research-based framework of six habits that drive sustained excellence.
- The Idea Compass - A framework for exploring ideas in four directions: North, South, East, West.
- Jobs To Be Done - A framework for understanding customer needs by focusing on the 'job' they're trying to accomplish, not the product they're buying.
- Kano Model - A framework for prioritizing features based on customer satisfaction and functionality.
- Knowledge Management Proficiency Ladder - A ten-level progression framework for developing knowledge management skills from beginner to expert.
- Knowledge Capture Framework - A systematic approach to identifying, documenting, and preserving important knowledge.
- Kolb Learning Cycle - Experiential learning model: experience, reflect, conceptualize, experiment - then repeat.
- LATCH - Five universal ways to organize information: Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, Hierarchy.
- Lean Manufacturing - A systematic method for eliminating waste within a manufacturing system while maximizing value for customers.
- Levels of Work - A framework describing four progressive stages of professional work, from traditional employment to running a large organization.
- Lippitt-Knoster Change Model - A framework showing that successful change requires vision, skills, incentives, resources, and an action plan working together.
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - A psychological theory organizing human needs into a five-tier pyramid, from basic survival needs to self-actualization, where lower-level needs must be satisfied before higher ones can be pursued.
- Network Effects - A product or service becomes more valuable as more people use it.
- Noble Eightfold Path - The Buddhist path to ending suffering through right understanding, conduct, and mental discipline.
- OKRs - A goal-setting framework using Objectives and measurable Key Results.
- OODA Loop - A decision-making framework consisting of four phases: Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act.
- Optionality - The strategic practice of keeping options open to benefit from uncertainty and unexpected opportunities.
- Personal Organization Roadmap - A step-by-step guide for building your personal organization system, from basic tools to a comprehensive LifeOS.
- Problem Solving Cycle - A structured iterative approach to systematically identify, analyze, solve, and learn from problems.
- Product Owner - The Scrum role responsible for maximizing product value through backlog management.
- Prospect Theory - A behavioral economics framework showing that people value gains and losses asymmetrically, with losses hurting more than equivalent gains please.
- Pyramid of Communication - A hierarchical structure for presenting information from conclusion to supporting details.
- RACI Matrix - A responsibility assignment matrix: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed.
- Recognition-Primed Decision - A model of how experienced professionals make rapid decisions by matching situations to patterns from their experience.
- Regret Minimization Framework - A decision-making approach that evaluates choices by imagining yourself at age 80 and asking which option would minimize lifetime regret.
- Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions - A framework for categorizing decisions as one-way doors (Type 1) or two-way doors (Type 2).
- The Rule of 3 - When you distill any topic into 3 things, you've got a memorable framework.
- SCQA Model - A storytelling framework using Situation, Complication, Question, and Answer to structure compelling narratives.
- SCQA Storytelling Model - A narrative framework: Situation, Complication, Question, Answer for persuasive communication.
- Scrum Master - The Scrum role responsible for facilitating the process and removing team impediments.
- Scrum - An agile framework for managing complex work through iterative sprints and defined roles.
- Scrumban - A hybrid agile approach combining Scrum's structure with Kanban's flow-based principles.
- Second Brain Phases - The five phases of building and using a second brain system, from capture to sharing.
- Seek, Sense, Share - Harold Jarche's Personal Knowledge Management framework centered on exploring new ideas, making sense of discoveries, and sharing learnings.
- Seven Deadly Sins - The Christian tradition's list of fundamental vices that lead to other sins.
- SMART Goals - Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
- Sources of Advantages - The key factors that create competitive advantage: talent, hard work, curiosity, energy, temperament, and partner.
- Sparketype Assessment - A personality assessment that identifies the nature of work most meaningful to you, at the intersection of passion and purpose.
- Stadium of Selves - A mental model for viewing your life as a gathering space where all versions of yourself - past, present, and future - coexist and communicate.
- Stoic Virtues - The four cardinal virtues of Stoicism—Wisdom, Justice, Courage, and Moderation—considered the foundation of a good life.
- Story Arcs - Universal narrative patterns that describe the emotional trajectory of stories, from 'Rags to Riches' to 'Man in a Hole.'
- SWOT Analysis - Strategic framework analyzing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
- SySTEM Model - A decision-making framework: Sensing, Thinking, Experimenting, and Modeling together.
- Theological Virtues - The three Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity/love.
- TOCLA Approach - Turn one idea into five content pieces: Teach, Observe, Contrarian, Listicle, Analyze.
- Triangle of Purpose - Three questions to define purpose: Who is your audience? Why must this exist? What's in it for you?
- Trigger-Routine-Reward - The three-part structure of habits: cue that triggers behavior, routine performed, and reward received.
- Two-System Thinking - The mind operates through fast, intuitive System 1 and slow, deliberate System 2, each with distinct strengths and weaknesses.
- Two-Year Test - Teach what you would have found valuable two years ago.
- Types of Productivity - A holistic framework identifying four types of productivity: task, intellectual, emotional, and social.
- Understanding by Design - The Wiggins & McTighe framework for curriculum design focused on enduring understanding and transfer.
- Universal Design for Learning - A framework providing flexible approaches to meet all learners' needs from the start.
- Vision Grid - A structured framework for documenting and analyzing your vision for the future.
- Wardley Maps - A strategic mapping technique that visualizes the evolution of components in a value chain.
- Waterfall Methodology - A sequential project management approach where phases flow downward like a waterfall.
- Workflow Cashflow Outflow Model - A three-phase framework for building a sustainable creator business: optimizing work systems, generating income, and scaling through delegation.
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