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The Intentional Organization
A Leadership and Management Guide
By Sara Hicks & Mathias Meyer
Build a workplace where people can do good work and feel good about doing it. A practical companion for the everyday decisions that shape your team.
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Lead with more intention.
Mathias and I wrote this for founders, executives, and managers navigating the messy, human parts of building a company. It brings together lessons from our own leadership experiences and the work we do with leaders.
Explore trust, decisions, feedback, delegation, accountability, collaboration, communication, meetings, time away, and focus. Stories and reflection questions help you connect each idea to your own organization.
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A place on your leadership shelf.
“a thoughtful, deeply human framework for leadership”
Camille FournierAuthor of The Manager’s Path
“This is the book that you will pull off your shelf again and again.”
Lara HoganVP of engineering and author of Resilient Management
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The Intentional Organization Podcast
Season 1 is complete
Join Mathias and me for conversations about the everyday work of leading teams—from difficult conversations and feedback to meetings, values, and accountability. Choose a topic that’s on your mind.
Start here: Navigating Difficult Conversations
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A conversation about one of leadership’s most familiar challenges.
All Season 1 episodes
1. Navigating Difficult Conversations
Why difficult conversations feel so stressful and how to approach them with intention.
2. Reorgs
Why reorgs so often disappoint, and how to approach structural change with clarity and care.
3. Feedback
Make feedback a regular, specific conversation instead of saving it for an annual review.
4. Meetings
Why meetings go wrong and practical ways to make them more purposeful and effective.
5. Kitchen Knives
Cooking stories and kitchen mishaps offer a different way to think about caring for your team.
6. The Value of Values
Make company values useful when decisions are difficult and trade-offs are real.
7. Business Lingo, Ambiguity, Exclusion, and Cults
How workplace jargon creates confusion and exclusion, and how to build shared understanding.
8. What Makes for a Productive Offsite?
What makes an offsite worthwhile, from preparation to meaningful time together.
9. Accountability
Build accountability through clear expectations, regular feedback, and support that fits the person.
10. OKRs
What objectives and key results can—and cannot—do for strategy and shared priorities.
11. Inside a Coaching Session
A look inside coaching: vulnerable conversations, practice, and turning reflection into action.
12. Letting Go
How to release control, delegate with clear standards, and build trust in your team.
