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One person's thirty years, plus everything the community has learned since. A 30+ year financial and operating executive career at Intuit, Netflix and Mozilla — every Substack newsletter, every Best Of link, every Cook’s PRO and PlayBook Edition, captured, curated and searchable.

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Cook's Executive Operating System: the Executive as Chief Architect and Chief Coach at the centre, ringed by Leadership Operating Models and Leadership Plays, surrounded by four quadrants - Strategy, Communication and Influence, Leadership Culture, and Decision and Execution Systems.
Cook's Executive Operating System™ — a set of Leadership Operating Models™.

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Eight zones of leadership. Open one to see what I’d hand you first — useful when you know the territory but not the question.

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Cook's PlayBooks

My weekly Substack newsletter, which I began writing in June 2024. This site was created in July 2026 after my 100th newsletter post — when I realised I needed a central place to curate, index and showcase those 100, plus the 1,000 other best ofs I haven’t written a post about… yet! If you’re going to click here, you may as well subscribe.

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My website explaining everything else I do — from the 1:1 executive coaching practice I launched in 2020, to speaking engagements, to sponsorships. If interested, go check it out.

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