The Unicorn Library

Educational resources for people teams, managers and employees

E-Books

The 6 Levels of Unicorn Leadership

Learn How to Build a High-Performing Team that Help Scale Your Company.
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New Manager Playbook

Best-practices from successful management training courses at hundreds of high-growth companies to help you kickstart your own program.
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Career Conversations

A guide to facilitate career development for learning, growth, and fulfilment.
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Scaling Leadership: How Founders Build Real Leaders

Scaling leadership is the founder's hardest job. Learn how to shift from doing to multiplying, build a layer of leaders, and stop being the bottleneck.
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Leadership Team Building That Actually Works

Skip the trust falls. Here's leadership team building that builds real trust, surfaces productive conflict, and moves performance, with 7 exercises that work.
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How to Choose a Leadership Keynote Speaker (2026)

Booking a leadership keynote speaker? Here's how to match the right speaker to your audience, brief them well, spot red flags, and what fees to expect in 2026.
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The Two-Hour Conversation That Saves Co-Founder Relationships

A two-hour session mapping who owns which decisions is what keeps a co-founder partnership fast, and intact, as the company scales.
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How to Resolve Conflict at Work: A Manager's Complete Guide

Learn how to resolve conflict at work with proven frameworks, scripts, and strategies managers can use immediately. Stop avoiding hard conversations.
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The Strategic Planning Process for Scaling Startups

Most strategic plans die on a shelf. Here's a strategic planning process for scaling startups, tied to execution cadence so the plan drives real work.
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Revenue Per Employee: The Tech Benchmark That Reveals If Leadership Is Working

The 2026 revenue-per-employee benchmarks for tech and SaaS companies: what the data says about leadership ROI and how to use it with your CFO.
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The 10-80-10 Delegation Framework: How Tech Managers Stop Doing the Work

The delegation framework that turns first-time managers from doers into multipliers: the exact script and the three traps to avoid.
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Blameless Postmortems: The Engineering Trust Practice That Stops Repeat Failures

How to run a blameless postmortem that actually changes behavior: the step-by-step script, the template, and the trap most teams fall into.
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L&D Budget 2026: How Much Should Tech Companies Spend Per Employee?

Real L&D budget benchmarks for tech companies in 2026. Spend per employee, allocation by stage, and the ROI math that wins over your CFO.
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The Bus Factor Audit: A Founder Dependency Test for Scaling CEOs

Run a bus factor audit on your company in 60 minutes. Find the people, decisions, and systems that would stall if you disappeared tomorrow — and fix them.
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Manager Onboarding: The 90-Day Plan Every New Tech Manager Needs

A real manager onboarding plan that goes beyond HR paperwork. The 30-60-90 framework new tech managers need to lead without breaking the team.
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