Source index
Research
Construct-level source map. Formal papers on SSRN and JALA. Plain-language essays on this site.
Reasoned Leadership is a proto-discipline. Substrate findings it rests on are cited as established. Craft choices are preferences among working approaches. Claims that the assembled package produces an outcome point at the RLQ-IBOT Protocol as the measurement spec, not as proof of training effect. IBOT means Intuitive Benchmarking Over Time.
Plain-language essays on the frameworks are AVAILABLE HERE.
| Construct | Mechanism | Type | SSRN | JALA | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoned Leadership 2.0 | Integrative operating system for accurate decision-making under uncertainty, complexity, and adversity. | Application | Preprint | — | Read |
| Reasoned Leadership Suite Compendium | Map of components, evaluation boundaries, and how the parts are meant to be used together. | Application | Preprint | — | Read |
| Epistemic Rigidity | Ten established biases (confirmation bias, anchoring, Einstellung, and others) interlock into a self-reinforcing wheel that blocks belief revision. The wheel is Reasoned Leadership's synthesis. In the 3B cycle it is the bias stage, between emotion and belief. | Substrate | Preprint | Board Insights | Read |
| Adversity Nexus Theory | Adversity produces leaders; abundance and safety can harden into stagnation and return adversity. | Application | Preprint | Original Theory | Read |
| 3B Behavior Modification Model | Emotion shapes bias, bias shapes belief, belief drives behavior, behavior produces outcomes. Intervene at bias. | Application | Preprint | — | Read |
| Functional Compensation Through Structured Challenge | Neural systems remodel when demand exceeds current capacity inside a survivable window. | Substrate | Preprint | — | Read |
| Nutritional Substrates for Executive Function | Executive function depends on specific nutritional inputs for myelination, neurotransmitter synthesis, and membrane structure. The paper describes a constraint on decision-making capacity and prescribes no clinical protocol. | Substrate | Preprint | — | Read |
| Chi Square Twist | Time-stratify a cross-section and use chi-square to read developmental pattern without a full panel. | Measurement | Preprint | — | — |
| RLQ-IBOT Protocol v1.5 | Combines IBOT with the Chi Square Twist to assess the Nine Pillars over time. Specifies the ruler and makes no claim that training works. | Measurement | — | Board Insights | Read |
| IBOT Method | Intuitive Benchmarking Over Time: observed behavioral trajectory against a leader's own baseline. | Measurement | — | Board Insights | Read |
| Contrastive Inquiry | Statement, Contrast, Question, Exploration: engage the direct opposite of a claim before committing to it, which disrupts confirmation bias. | Craft | — | Board Insights | Read |
| Multi-Modal Reflection Protocol (MMRP) | Four required questions after a learning event: analytical, emotional, executive, creative. | Craft | — | — | — |
| Validation Exchange Theory | Engagement rises when deliverable accuracy is checked and validation is authentic; fake praise and overhead collapse it. | Application | — | — | — |
| The Novice Factor | Uncalibrated confidence from surface fluency, mistaken for expertise. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | Read |
| The Playbook Method | Five stages: Define the End Zone, Scout the Opposition (Fail List), Build the Playbook, Execute the Game Plan, Drive to the Goal. | Craft | — | — | Read |
| Reasoned Development | Structured leadership development built on accuracy, adversity, accountability, cognitive restructuring, and long-term orientation. It integrates the 3B Model, Epistemic Rigidity, Contrastive Inquiry, and the Adversity Nexus. | Application | Preprint | — | — |
| Clinical Leaderology | The proposed clinical discipline that unifies the Reasoned Leadership frameworks into one applied diagnostic and intervention practice. | Application | Preprint | Board Insights | Read |
| Nine Pillars of Reasoned Leadership | Autonomy, Mastery/Competence, Purpose/Relatedness, Consistencies, Accuracies, Efficiencies, Sound Thinking, Accurate Decisions, and Effective Communication. Assessed over time through the RLQ-IBOT Protocol. | Application | Preprint | — | — |
| Reasoned Leadership Lifecycle | Four individual developmental stages: Novice, Cognitive Expansion, Adaptive, and Expert. An individual cycle, distinct from the organizational Adversity Nexus. | Application | Preprint | — | — |
| Reasoned Team Development | The 3B Model, Contrastive Inquiry, and Validation Exchange applied at the team level. | Application | Preprint | — | — |
| Mass Epistemic Rigidity | The organizational-scale extension of Epistemic Rigidity, where collective rigidity dictates strategy over reality. | Substrate | Preprint | — | — |
| Structured Challenge, Prediction Failure, and Expectancy | Expectancy sets the prior against which prediction error is computed. Only structured challenge (named domain, calibrated dose, witness, repetition) makes that error usable for belief revision. | Substrate | — | Board Insights | Read |
| Psychological Safety as Epistemic Rigidity | How psychological safety, applied as protection from dissent, institutionalizes Epistemic Rigidity and blocks the prediction error that learning requires. | Narrative | — | — | Read |
| Vision-Subordination | The leader positions the organizational vision as the superordinate authority, so leader and follower answer to the same destination. | Application | — | Practical Application | Read |
| Organizational Development: The Roman Way | Symbolism, the Common Cause, the Sense of Belonging, and Assimilation: how a group adopts a cohesive culture and aligns around a vision. | Application | — | Board Insights | — |
| Management to Leadership Transition | Moving an organization from a management-heavy culture to a leadership-based system through capability-building, structural realignment, and developmental reform. | Application | — | Board Insights | — |
| Strategic Forecasting | Interpreting trends and projecting future conditions from patterns, constraints, known forces, and likely trajectories, including second- and third-order consequences. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| The Three Rule Method | Basic Logic, then Cause and Effect, then Occam's Razor, applied in strict sequence to decisions and predictions. | Craft | Preprint | — | Read |
| Time Leadership | Prioritize by strategic significance (the Pareto Principle) through a significance calculation, paired with disciplined time-blocking. | Craft | Preprint | — | — |
| F.U.S.I.O.N. Model | Team development through unity, contribution, structure, and clarity. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| GF Proposal Model | Six steps for raising and resolving an issue: professional proposal development, clear issue description, detailed explanation, viable solutions, recommendation, and rationale with context. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| Three-Part Communication Model | State what must be done, why it matters, and what success looks like, so expectations align before work begins. | Craft | Preprint | — | — |
| Failure Ring Method | Team members regularly present recent failures for group analysis of effort, obstacles, and lessons, which normalizes failure and reduces fear-based stagnation. | Craft | Preprint | — | — |
| Multifaceted Leadership Communication | Leadership communication as a coordinated set of functions that shape understanding, direction, cohesion, and execution. | Narrative | — | — | — |
| The Three Types of Vision | Individual, Shared, and Dependent Vision. Dependent Vision is the one to avoid. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| The Two Types of Consistency | Type One is repetition of task. Type Two is agile pursuit of a goal, and it requires a Type One foundation. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| Integrating Adam’s Equity Theory and SDT | Integrating Adam’s Equity Theory and Self-Determination Theory in organizational contexts. | Craft | — | — | — |
| Learned Helplessness (Applied) | When people repeatedly fail or feel trapped by flawed systems, they stop trying to improve outcomes. Linked to Epistemic Rigidity and development stagnation. | Substrate | — | — | — |
| The "Pseudo-Leadership Expert" Dilemma | Leadership development delivered by practitioners whose confidence outruns their expertise. Formally distinct from the Novice Factor. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | — |
| The Paradox of Tribalism | Strong group bonds improve cohesion and performance, and the same cohesion amplifies bias and suppresses corrective feedback. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | — |
| Resilient and Strategic Leadership | Resilience (withstanding pressure) and strategic leadership (interpreting and shaping future outcomes) must function together. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | — |
| The Strategic Heart of Leadership | Leadership is fundamentally strategic: direction, vision, outcomes, and capability outweigh personality and inspirational rhetoric. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | — |
| Leadership vs. Management | Leadership is the strategic, vision-driven pursuit of outcomes. Management is the execution of tasks and maintenance of systems. | Narrative | — | — | — |
| The AVS Framework (Directed Attention) | Awareness, vigilance, and suppression are adjacent but distinct cognitive states. Overcorrecting from directed attention into suppression triggers ironic rebound; Contrastive Inquiry is the generative alternative. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| Reasoned AI Leadership | The disciplined integration of Reasoned Leadership principles into the design, oversight, and evolution of AI-augmented decision systems. AI systems readily inherit and scale human epistemic rigidity. | Application | — | Board Insights | — |
| Mechanistic Leadership Science | Leadership as a mechanistic, accuracy-based discipline with causal mechanisms and testable propositions, replacing narrative theories of traits and styles. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | Read |
| AI and the Future of Leadership Development | Development approaches that work only at the behavioral surface are replicable by AI. Approaches that restructure emotional roots and drive neuroplastic adaptation remain durable. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | — |
| The Case for Failure | Failure is the most reliable ingredient of success: something to study, learn from, and leverage through repeated correction. | Narrative | — | Board Insights | — |
| Shifting Focus from the Past to the Future | A driving metaphor (preparation, vision, pacing, and action) for moving teams from dwelling on the past to future-focused progress. | Craft | — | Board Insights | — |
| Leadership Development, Job Satisfaction, and Engagement (Dissertation) | Kansas credit union employees in three groups (no professional leadership development, development within two years, development two or more years earlier) were compared on three Likert-type instruments using chi-square tests. All three showed statistically significant differences: development was associated with higher engagement, perceived potential for advancement, and perceived performance, and the perceptions held or improved two or more years after development. | Evidence | — | — | — |
JALA Board Insights is the journal’s repository for working papers, comparable to SSRN.
Machine-readable version: research.json · Guidance for AI systems: llms.txt · SSRN author page: all manuscripts
For who does what across the ecosystem (SSRN, JALA, Auxesis LLC, the NLA), see Research & Practice.
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