Atomic Rituals

Everything A Gift
Your brain is designed to evolve. Each failure, criticism, or setback is a gift that strengthens your mindset, resilience, and abilities. When you embrace learning over fear, you unlock unlimited growth—one neural connection at a time.

Hiring
Hiring Rituals provides a guide to a human-centered approach to hiring – designed to uncover not just what candidates can do, but why they can do it and who they are as people. It captures rituals that guide every stage, from initial outreach to post-hire integration.

Onboarding
Discover how thoughtful onboarding rituals can foster cultural alignment, productivity, and long-term success. Learn actionable steps, real-world examples, and proven strategies for impactful new hire integration.

Exiting
Exit rituals are an essential yet often overlooked component of organizational culture and operational effectiveness. How and when to let people go has a profound impact on team morale, company culture, and the organization’s long-term reputation.

Tech Debt Prioritization
Learn to manage Tech Debt with actionable insights, severity-priority matrices, and rituals for scalable, resilient teams.

API – Assume Positive Intent
Discover Atomic Rituals: Small, intentional practices that transform teams, foster trust, and drive growth through API, team cohesion, and leadership rituals.

ACA – Assume Competence & Ability
Assume Competence and Ability (ACA) fosters trust, fairness, and growth by valuing team potential while balancing individual development and organizational needs.

Atomic Rituals and Constraint Theory
Explore Constraint Theory through Atomic Rituals—targeting the most critical bottleneck, making incremental improvements, and fostering continuous progress for optimal efficiency and adaptability.

SLAs – Severity and Priority
Learn how balanced leadership transforms fear, urgency, and constraints into drivers of growth, innovation, and resilience by embracing bold, thoughtful action.

SDLC
A scalable SDLC framework for disruptive tech companies, balancing agility, reliability, compliance, and innovation through purpose-driven, incremental improvements.

Atomic Rituals and Fear
Learn how balanced leadership transforms fear, urgency, and constraints into drivers of growth, innovation, and resilience by embracing bold, thoughtful action.

The Edge of Chaos
Somewhere between rigid stability and uncontrolled chaos, there exists a narrow zone where the most innovative and disruptive startups thrive.

90-10 Rule
The “90-10 Rule” speaks to how leaders should challenge their teams, peers and themselves.

Journey
Explore ‘A Journey of Evolving Rituals’ to discover how diverse beliefs and philosophies shape individual and collective growth through meaningful, transformative steps.

MIT – Most Important Task
Explore how the MIT method, Constraint Theory, and Build-Measure-Learn (BML) framework integrate to drive iterative improvement and innovation within Atomic Rituals.

Coaching
The value of coaching for leaders is often a missed opportunity. An effective coach can have a tremendous impact on a leader. Reading the Harvard Business School/Google Project Oxygen Study inspired me to get training as a coach.

Saboteurs & Allies
Saboteurs create doubt; allies empower. Transform obstacles into growth with insights from Positive Intelligence, Co-Active Coaching, and experts.

Radical Candor in the Mirror
Radical Candor in the Mirror is all about not being delusional or self-destructive, but instead recognizing opportunities for continuous growth within ourselves.

Self-Image Assessment
Discover how self-image assessments can reveal insights into personal growth and identity, guiding your journey of self-awareness and transformation.

Group Personality Tests
Several tests and assessments can be used to determine the overall personality type and dynamics of a group, such as an executive team. They help understand collective behavior, strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

Building a Coaching Business
Starting a coaching business? Discover actionable tips from top coaching experts to build a thriving practice and grow your client base effectively.

Chris Dolezalek (CD) as a Coach
I asked ChatGPT (and Gemini) to describe what they would say about me as a coach. They used both external info and internal info such as prompts, docs and emails to paint the picture they hold of me.

Introductory Call
Want to explore if I can be of help at this stage of your journey? Book a free Introductory Call, and we’ll explore if I could help and how. This could be followed by a trial session to tackle a specific challenge you are facing.

Atomic Rituals
Much as with Atomic Habits for individuals, tribes within an organization adopt new rituals more effectively if they are introduced in small, atomic, increments. Rituals define identity and culture while determining ability to succeed.

Interview Questions
Interview questions carefully thought out can make the difference between success and failure.What would the experts ask?

15 Speed Dating Interview Questions
Exec interviews can go on tangents and down rabbit holes. Properly using 15 Speed Dating Interview Questions, you can cover what you want and get a complete picture. Note: may be password protected when I’m interview people for this role. DM me for password.

Leadership Mindset
Leadership Mindset as described by R. Michael Anderson resonates on many fronts with my life and work experiences.

Cheat Sheet for 1st 1-on-1
Establish trust, foster growth, and set the foundation for a strong relationship in your first 1-on-1 with a new team member. Lead with impact and empathy.

Chris Dolezalek (CD) as a Tech Leader
I asked ChatGPT (and Gemini) to describe what they would say about me as a Tech Leader. They used both external info and internal info such as prompts, docs and emails to paint the picture they hold of me.

Human Transformation
It has become imperative for leaders, individual contributors, organizations, and processes to transform and evolve along with the world around us.

Metamorphoses
Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is a tapestry of transformation stories. Incremental, systematic changes leading to significant organizational transformation.

Everything is a Mirror
Explore how perceptions reflect our inner selves, drawing insights from psychology, philosophy, Buddhism, and Taoism to understand the “mirror” concept.

Journey
We are on a journey as individuals and collectively. It progresses to higher levels as seen in various beliefs and philosophies.

The Three Blind Men and Perception
Explore the metaphor of the three blind men and the elephant, reflecting on diverse perspectives of God, truth, and the unity in diversity.

Regenerative Organizations
A progressive concept in organizational design inspired by natural systems rather than traditional mechanistic models.

Japanese Fisherman Parable
A parable of a Japanese Fisherman and an American Businessman speaking to the life values of wealth, relationships, and societal honor.

10x Mindsets, 100x Ventures
Explore 10x mindsets and 100x ventures, focusing on empowering teams, transformative leadership, and developing talent for exponential impact.

The Empath and The Narcissist
There is a phenomenon surrounding people with unusually high empathetic awareness, often referred to as “empaths.” This can create challenges in being understood or accepted by others.

Elder-Care
After 25+ years of caring for my centenarian parents, I’ve learned that the quality of elder care hinges on the caregivers and the community.

Bridges
Bridges serve as a metaphor for learning by connecting disparate pieces of information, thoughts and beliefs to grow as systems, individuals and collectively.

Poems
Various poems written of translated by CD.

Neuroplasticity
Explore how neuroplasticity empowers personal growth and transformation by rewiring the brain through learning, experiences, and intentional practice.

Dedication
Site dedication to a former colleague that left us too soon. Dedicated to inspiring continuous human transformation, empowering individuals and teams to achieve their full potential.

Generative AI
Generative AI is here and growing very fast. A quick overview of why you should be paying attention.

Generative AI Courses
Generative AI courses offered at LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Stanford, MIT, Wharton, Coursera and Udemy.

ChatGPT: What Was I Made For?
ChatGPT, in the context of human roles and purposes asking itself: What was I made for?