Dave Kline
Dave Kline spent about a decade at Bridgewater Associates (working directly for Ray Dalio for a stretch) plus years at Moody’s and PwC before leaving corporate leadership to build a management-training business with his wife. Together they run MGMT (the MGMT Accelerator cohort course and the MGMT Playbook newsletter, which lists 50,000+ subscribers and 175+ weekly issues), turning two decades of operating experience into practical playbooks for new and mid-level managers. His content spans LinkedIn and Twitter/X, feeding a newsletter, cohort courses, and one-to-one CEO coaching.
- The Inverted One-on-One — flip 1:1s so the report owns a fixed-question agenda, turning you from status-taker into coach
- Always Be Recruiting — continuous recruiting (a warm, pre-vetted nurture list) beats reactive hiring of whoever’s available
- Buy Cash Flow, Skip the Big Idea — buy an existing profitable audience asset for runway, then evolve it into your own product
- The Delegation Ladder — sequence delegation: low-risk and experimental work and your weaknesses first, critical work last
- The I’ll Just Do It Trap — why taking work back destroys the team, and refusing the “monkey” with “what do you propose”
- Align on the How, Not Just the What — co-author the system and experiments, not just the goal number, in a two-minute conversation
- Invest in Your High Performers First — the math says a 10% lift on a 2x performer beats rescuing a 50% performer
- The Creator Funnel Built by Two — social to newsletter to cohort course to coaching, with a husband-wife duo as the positioning feature