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Vaugan Nayagar

The Playbook

Ep3: When Silence Costs You

Feb 16, 2026

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5 min read

Ep3: When Silence Costs You

The first consequence isn’t conflict. It’s surprise.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

The Playbook

Ep2: When the Room Goes Quiet

Feb 9, 2026

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6 min read

Ep2: When the Room Goes Quiet

Why politeness is often the first warning sign.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

The Playbook

Ep1: Before Leadership Starts

Feb 2, 2026

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7 min read

Ep1: Before Leadership Starts

The moment most leadership stories skip, and why it matters.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar
Business Update: 2 Years In, What's Next?

Jan 26, 2026

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11 min read

Business Update: 2 Years In, What's Next?

2025 Was Noisy. 2026 Is About Signal.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Emotional Intelligence

The System Learns Faster Than You Think

Jan 19, 2026

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10 min read

The System Learns Faster Than You Think

Emotionally Intelligent Manager Series Episode 5/5: Training the system

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Emotional Intelligence

Emotionally Intelligent Manager Series Episode 4/5: Relationship Management

Jan 12, 2026

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9 min read

Emotionally Intelligent Manager Series Episode 4/5: Relationship Management

Episode 4: Where Truth Lives or Dies

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Wheel of Life

+1

2025: The Toast Was... Complicated

Jan 5, 2026

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10 min read

2025: The Toast Was... Complicated

Another Wheel of Life check-in this one was heavy

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Empathy

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Empathy Is Not Being Nice. It’s what makes the truth cheap enough to say

Dec 29, 2025

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9 min read

Empathy Is Not Being Nice. It’s what makes the truth cheap enough to say

Emotionally Intelligent Manager Series Episode 3/5: Empathy

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Leadership

+3

Holding the Moment: Self-Management Under Pressure

Dec 22, 2025

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7 min read

Holding the Moment: Self-Management Under Pressure

Emotionally Intelligent Manager Series Episode 2/5: Self Management

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Leadership

+3

Most Leadership Mistakes Happen Before You Speak

Dec 15, 2025

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7 min read

Most Leadership Mistakes Happen Before You Speak

The Emotionally Intelligent Leader Series Episode 1/5: Self Awareness. It isn’t reflection after the meeting. It’s noticing the moment that decides it.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

The Cave

+5

New Series Trailer! The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

Dec 8, 2025

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8 min read

New Series Trailer! The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

How to lead your teams better by facing the inner battles, blind spots, and emotional patterns every leader encounters daily.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Leadership

+1

I Lost My Biggest Fan

Dec 1, 2025

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6 min read

I Lost My Biggest Fan

A story about grief, stillness, and the quiet lessons that make us better leaders.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Broken Team Series

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Series Finale! Broken Teams

Nov 24, 2025

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11 min read

Series Finale! Broken Teams

Teams rarely break loudly. They drift quietly. Here’s the model (and the mindset) that keeps them healthy.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Broken Team Series

+2

The Results Problem: Why Teams Drift (and How to Pull Them Back)

Nov 17, 2025

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10 min read

The Results Problem: Why Teams Drift (and How to Pull Them Back)

Broken team series part 5/5. The fifth dysfunction in Patrick Lencioni’s model, explained through Thor’s journey from ego to purpose.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Broken Team Series

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The Accountability Problem: Why Silence Breaks Teams

Nov 10, 2025

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8 min read

The Accountability Problem: Why Silence Breaks Teams

Broken team series part 4/5. The fourth dysfunction that breaks teams, and how ownership, not comfort, brings excellence back.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Broken Team Series

+2

The Commitment Problem: Why ‘Agreement’ Isn’t Alignment

Nov 3, 2025

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9 min read

The Commitment Problem: Why ‘Agreement’ Isn’t Alignment

Broken team series part 3/5. The third dysfunction that breaks teams, and how clarity, not consensus, brings momentum back.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Broken Team Series

The Conflict Problem: When Calm Is Killing You.

Oct 27, 2025

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8 min read

The Conflict Problem: When Calm Is Killing You.

Broken team series part 2/5. Fear of conflict feels safe, but it quietly destroys teams. Learn how to turn tension into trust and disagreement into performance.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar
First 100 Days Series Part 4/4: Adapt your strategy like Murdock.

Oct 20, 2025

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7 min read

First 100 Days Series Part 4/4: Adapt your strategy like Murdock.

How to turn landing into take-off

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Trust

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The Trust Problem. Broken team series part 1/5.

Oct 13, 2025

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9 min read

The Trust Problem. Broken team series part 1/5.

Why even superheroes fall apart without vulnerability-based trust.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Team Dynamics

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Your team is broken. How to fix it?

Oct 6, 2025

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8 min read

Your team is broken. How to fix it?

Diagnose and fix the 5 common dysfunctions and get to high performance

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar
First 100 Days Series Part 3: Execute your strategy like BA.

Sep 29, 2025

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8 min read

First 100 Days Series Part 3: Execute your strategy like BA.

Execution is the muscle that builds your credibility fast.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Wheel of Life

2024 Was Burnt Toast. And 2025? Still some charred bits to scrape off...

Sep 22, 2025

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5 min read

2024 Was Burnt Toast. And 2025? Still some charred bits to scrape off...

New job. New city. New toast, slightly less burnt. Here’s how I rebalanced my life with "help" from Homer Simpson.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Strategy

Hannibal’s Cigar: Love it When a Strategy Comes Together

Sep 15, 2025

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10 min read

Hannibal’s Cigar: Love it When a Strategy Comes Together

The A-Team's Faceman built trust and gathered intel through observation. Hannibal's strategy sets the direction.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar

Emotional Intelligence

Regulators, Mount Up!

Sep 8, 2025

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8 min read

Regulators, Mount Up!

A powerful lesson for managers, from Warren G’s classic track.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar
Goodbye Night Owl. Hello 5AM Club.

Sep 1, 2025

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8 min read

Goodbye Night Owl. Hello 5AM Club.

Moving to Cape Town forced me to swap nights for dawns. And I'm loving it.

Vaugan Nayagar
Vaugan Nayagar
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