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The Six Metals of Leadership by Siva Prasad — book cover

Free diagnostic · From The Six Metals of Leadership

Pressure doesn't build your leadership.
It reveals it.

Nobody is born gold. A metal's grade is what it does under load.

Ten questions. Two readings: the metal you bring on an ordinary week, and the one your team meets when it gets hard. Those are usually not the same metal, and the gap between them is the whole subject.

Take the diagnostic See the six metals

Five minutes · No signup to take it · From The Six Metals of Leadership: Patterns of Leadership Under Load

Six metals, graded by what they leave behind.

Not a personality type where every type is equally fine. These are graded the way a metallurgist grades a metal — by how it behaves under load, and what remains in people afterwards. Best to worst.

Metals are not fixed identities. Everyone slips a rung under pressure — the calm Gold goes Bronze on a bad week, the steady Silver goes Rust when the stakes spike. The question is not what you are on your best day. It is your resting metal, plus the direction you slide when it gets hard, because that is the version your team actually meets.

Before you start

Six questions about an ordinary week, then four about the week it goes wrong. Pick the answer that is true, not the one that is right. Your first instinct is more accurate than your considered one, because the considered one has time to argue.

This is a mirror, not a scorecard, and it will not flatter you. Nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to send it.

You have the reading. Here's the rest of it.

The diagnostic is one page of a book that spends twenty-one chapters on the moments where the metal actually gets decided — the ten seconds after a mistake, the conversation you are forty days late on, the fortnight you are away.

The Six Metals of Leadership

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Twenty-one chapters, each opening on a recognisable leadership moment, plus a Reader's Field Kit you will use long after the first read.

  • The 21 Questions — one per chapter, as a standing self-audit
  • Try This Monday — one concrete move from every chapter
  • The Unlearn Checklist and the Clean-Lens Card
  • Your First 90 Days, for anyone newly in the seat
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Run it on your managers

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Every manager takes this independently and in writing, before anyone hears anyone else's answer. Then we look at the spread — and at the gap between where each leader rests and where they slide. That gap is the curriculum.

  • Each manager's resting metal and slide direction, privately
  • The aggregate pattern, which is usually the real finding
  • One rung, one move, chosen per person
  • A 90-day check to see whether the slide actually shortened
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