ETHIC Loop: Daily Ritual for Ethical, Scalable Culture

A 15-minute daily practice to align leadership behavior with ethical, scalable systems. Designed to surface blind spots, reinforce cultural integrity, and enable decentralization through clarity and trust.

To embed ethical leadership into daily practice by creating space for vulnerability, systemization, and real-time course correction. The ETHIC Loop helps leaders operationalize culture as a scalable asset.

Each step takes ~3 minutes. Can be done individually or as part of a team leadership ritual.

- Prompt: “What truth did I avoid saying or acting on today?” - Purpose: Surfaces hidden misalignments, repressed tensions, or inconvenient insights. - Practice: Write one unfiltered sentence. No judgment.

- Prompt: “What system, ritual, or documentation could carry this truth forward?” - Purpose: Prevents leadership bottlenecks by embedding truths into scalable containers. - Practice: Identify a way to externalize the insight (e.g., SOP, wiki page, team habit).

- Prompt: “Who needs to feel seen, trusted, or empowered today?” - Purpose: Prevents ethical drift by humanizing leadership decisions. - Practice: Reach out, acknowledge contribution, or explicitly delegate trust.

- Prompt: “What conversation or build-out am I avoiding because it’s messy?” - Purpose: Forces movement where inertia hides behind complexity. - Practice: Schedule or trigger that action immediately, even if imperfect.

- Prompt: “What am I over-controlling or endlessly tweaking?” - Purpose: Frees energy from false control loops and perfection paralysis. - Practice: Declare the system or decision ‘good enough’—ship, delegate, or shelve.

- Use with weekly founder/leadership rituals. - Log entries in shared DokuWiki journal or `/ceo:rituals` subspace if personal. - Share anonymized insights in `/playbook:leadership_patterns` to build institutional wisdom.

- Minimum Viable Transparency - Systemic Delegation - Cultural Compounding - Decision Bottleneck Prevention