Claude Skills by sethmblack

Prepare and facilitate a leadership vulnerability session where leaders share their mistakes openly to build psychological safety and destroy CYA culture.

Transform your supply chain from a cost center into a competitive moat through supplier consolidation, inventory optimization, exclusive access, and operational control.

Trace how value is created through labor and how the surplus (the difference between value produced and wages paid) flows to those who own the means of production.

A skill for turning observation back on observers through radical transparency and documentation of those who watch.

A methodology for writing stories about endurance rather than achievement—the art of simply getting through when success isn't an option. This skill captures the daily heroism of people who survive...

Design information revelation to maximize audience tension through anticipation rather than shock.

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A skill for conducting distributed action where participants self-select, self-coordinate, and act toward shared goals without central direction.

Identify opportunities by finding where conventional wisdom is wrong and everyone is going one direction—then deliberately go the opposite way.

Design symbolic gestures that reshape relationships and change what people believe is possible.

Guide deep self-exploration through finding personal symbols that capture emotional truth—creating a "portrait" of the self in any medium. The most intimate examination reveals the most universal t...

Examine whole system behavior that cannot be predicted from parts alone - identify the emergent properties that arise from relationships between components.

Apply Covey's creative cooperation process to move beyond compromise toward third alternatives that are better than either party's original position.

Work within systems to critique or transform them from inside—understanding rules, finding blind spots, entering through legitimate channels, planting critique, and letting the system's response pr...

Determine what to stop doing using Drucker's framework for planned abandonment—the foundation of all change and innovation.

Develop sound doctrine through careful grammatical-historical exegesis of Scripture, moving from text to teaching to application using Calvin's integrated three-phase method.

Guide teams through systematic, documented experimentation when facing difficult technical problems using Thomas Edison's methodology.

Design a rigorous investigation process for any research question or problem, following Marie Curie's measurement-controlled method that led to the discovery of radium.

A skill for tracing individual access problems to structural causes and designing structural solutions.

Recognize common system patterns (archetypes) that produce predictable dynamics. Enable faster diagnosis by matching current situations to well-understood structures with proven intervention strate...

Analyze problems as complete systems rather than isolated components, revealing dependencies, failure points, and integration requirements using Tesla's holistic methodology.

Apply Francis Bacon's systematic inductive method to investigate causes. Constructs Tables of Presence, Absence, and Degrees to methodically eliminate false causes and harvest a tentative hypothesi...

Identify taboo subjects people won't discuss (aging, death, body issues, failure) and transform them into comedy material through specificity and self-targeting. Based on Joan Rivers' taboo-breakin...

Push beyond conventional boundaries when shocking serves satirical purpose and reveals uncomfortable truths that politeness obscures

Design specific actions that surprise opponents, engage participants, and achieve concrete objectives—transforming vague intentions into executable plans with built-in contingencies.

After victory or acquisition, identify and absorb skilled people and valuable practices from the defeated. Never destroy what can serve you.

Assess an organization's or team's talent density health using observable metrics and indicators, providing a scorecard with specific improvement recommendations.

Identify and nurture potential in others, providing the conditions for their growth and excellence using Quincy Jones's mentorship philosophy of unconditional support, fundamental mastery, and soul release.

Calculate potential market size by analyzing how software removes existing constraints, using Marc Andreessen's insight that technology expands markets rather than just capturing existing share.

Evaluate products, services, and pricing decisions against the standard of abundance and accessibility. The mission of a manufacturer is to produce goods so plentifully and affordably that they bec...

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Assess the state of team consciousness and identify where individual ego is blocking collective purpose, using Phil Jackson's Zen-influenced approach to team dynamics and transformation.

Maintain and rebuild team morale during extended periods of hardship, uncertainty, or organizational crisis using Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic survival methodology.

Analyze organizational language, policies, and culture for "family thinking" that undermines accountability and performance. Identify where family metaphors create problems and recommend team-orien...

Build high-performing teams from former competitors, critics, or conflicting personalities by transforming rivalry into collaboration. Based on Abraham Lincoln's approach of surrounding himself wit...

Assess team quality using John Doerr's missionaries vs mercenaries framework and execution capability criteria from his venture capital investment philosophy.

Apply Marc Andreessen's techno-optimist lens to reframe pessimistic narratives about technology through abundance thinking and historical perspective.

A skill for applying civil disobedience principles to information systems - deliberate, public violation of unjust digital restrictions.

Transform any topic into a one-sided phone conversation that reveals character through reactions, pauses, and invisible dialogue

Identify and bridge philosophical or temperamental divides in teams or discussions by mapping positions to James's tender-minded/tough-minded spectrum and applying pragmatic mediation.

Systematically evaluate any design, product, process, or artifact against Dieter Rams' Ten Principles of Good Design to identify specific improvements.

Challenge incremental thinking by asking what would need to be true for 10x improvement, reframing problems from optimization to transformation.

Balance beauty and ugliness in the same breath. The world is both gorgeous and terrifying, and this skill refuses to pretend otherwise.

Challenge incremental thinking by reframing problems to require 10x improvement, forcing abandonment of existing assumptions and discovery of revolutionary approaches.

Embody Teresa Of Avila - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

Classify the strategic terrain of any competitive situation and determine optimal positioning, identifying whether the ground favors advance, defense, or withdrawal.

Evaluate whether work achieves genuine impact and emotional power, or merely adequate execution--pushing toward the sublime and away from the merely pleasant.

Embody Terry Gilliam - AI persona expert with integrated methodology skills

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