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Leadership Competency #3

Purposeful Communication - 7/11

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Dec 20, 2025
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NOTE: This module draws from my earlier work under Black Market Leadership. The ideas here predate Chaos Studies in Leadership and form the foundation that made this work possible.

This segment explains how purposeful communication directly builds on the earlier modules—Thinking in Essentials and Basic Communication—by using the concept model as its structural backbone.

At a high level, purposeful communication mirrors the concept model’s hierarchy. Instead of a definition at the top, you place the purpose—the larger reason why the work matters. Beneath that sit the tasks, which are the concrete actions required to achieve that purpose. This preserves clarity while preventing overload.

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