Drawn to Leadership

Discover concepts and tools for engineering leaders – one sketchnote at a time.

Recent Issues

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  Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership

  Startups require different skills (aptitude) and mindsets (attitude) than corporations. Simon Wardley identified three essential mindsets necessary for success: Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners (formerly called Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners). Explorers innovate and take risks, Villagers refine and scale innovations, and Town Planners optimize and standardize mature products. Companies benefit from having all three mindsets.

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  Flow ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership

  Through flow, individuals enter a state of presence in which they perform at their best. But the psychologist Csikszentmihalyi argued that flow is also a state of great psychological well-being. Bringing flow into the workplace requires good leadership.

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  Trust at Work ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership

  You can easily tell when trust has been broken. But what exactly is trust? In this issue, we look at a framework for trust, the four skills needed to master trust, and how leaders can apply these concepts in the workplace to foster better collaboration.

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  Well-Being Theory ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership

  Martin Seligman created Well-Being Theory and the PERMA model as a framework to better understand how well-being can help us thrive. Learn how leaders can apply these concepts to their organizations.