Chris Mailander

There are a lot of ways to think about your next playbook, the one that’s going to get you to the next level. For a certain few executives that are sitting in this position of thinking about what comes next, charged with getting it right, only a few are going to create that breakthrough that leads to extraordinary performance. The reason is this: most think about their most valuable asset as something within their business domain. It isn’t. It’s their judgment. It is how they perceive, react, and think about the world before them. It is the one that unravels that interwoven connection between the business domains and the expertise around those that they inevitably must have. That’s a common given. But how you extricate and optimize the connection with your cognitive, perceptual, and emotional journey — that’s where you create the breakthroughs. That’s what I’m doing with an elite class of CEOs that are the orchestrators, the strategists, the visionaries that are focused on creating that breakthrough to extraordinary performance. In 2023, I wrote a book. It’s called Judgment. And it’s about how decisions are really made in critical moments. As part of that, I developed this mind map that is focused on 12 different domains of things that can be intentionally curated and developed to create those breakthrough moments. We have operationalized this at scale. This is how you create your next playbook. This is Mailander.