The Leadership Competency Playbook

About the book

Most leadership frameworks stop at behaviors. This one goes further: it maps competencies against levels of work — the complexity, ambiguity, and time horizon a role is expected to hold.

The book gives practitioners a shared language for what good looks like at each level of leadership, and the tools to assess, coach, and hire against it.

The second edition sharpens the tie between competencies and levels of work and adds new case material on judgment under authority, autonomy, and the design of executive roles.

What you get

• The DOES cycle — Design, Organize, Execute, Sustain — as an operating rhythm for leadership work.
• Behavioral indicators and rubrics for each core competency, mapped to levels of work.
• Interview guides and reference-check questions built from the same competency dictionary.
• Integration patterns with Hogan and other executive assessments.
• Case studies from search and advisory engagements across manufacturing, professional services, and family enterprises.

Who it is for

Board directors, CEOs, chief people officers, executive-search practitioners, and leadership advisors who want a rigorous, teachable model that survives handoffs between hiring, onboarding, and performance conversations.