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Smuggler’s Fieldbook

Six small tools for seeing where the work is, who does it, and where attention goes. Go in order the first time; after that, open whichever answers today's question.

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1. 1Attention for a teamYour team's time in ten slices per cycle: an inbox for requests, protected focus, part-time and shared people, plan versus actual.Use when You're overloaded, or requests keep landing on you and your people.Start here. Draw your own strip first.
2. 2Colleague cardsA short card per person: what they're on, how they work, what to ask them, and who to ask instead.Use when The same questions keep reaching you, or you need to know who can help.Write your card with redirects. Twenty minutes.
3. 3The IndexWho owns, builds and knows every system, initiative and area, with gaps printed in red.Use when You need to know who owns what, or you suspect you own things by default.List the components and owners. Read the red gaps.
4. 4Terrain, with systemsSteering view: each dot is a commitment placed by evidence, a steering agenda with a decision log, and collisions by system.Use when Weekly or monthly steering, or before you challenge what a status report claims.One commitment per stream. Open the Systems view.
5. 5ContourExecution view: stages, questions, decisions, scope parts and blockers, with red flags and four kinds of knowing.Use when Daily work on the one to three streams you drive yourself.Only for streams you personally drive.
6. 6Attention, portfolioThe same slices across the whole organisation: who each initiative rests on, and the hidden bottlenecks.Use when Cycle or quarterly planning across teams.When planning the next cycle.