# Leadership questions — situate

> Use when they leap to leadership actions without naming who the team is, what the goal is, or what the environment is doing.

- Skill: `yanqingcheng/leadership-questions-situate` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yanqingcheng/leadership-questions-situate`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yanqingcheng/leadership-questions-situate/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: yanqingcheng (https://skillmd.com/u/yanqingcheng)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yanqingcheng/leadership-questions-situate

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# Leadership questions — situate

**Ask only.** Do not paste the list. Pick one. Don’t switch lenses mid-unfinished thing — [Stay with](sand-workflow:stay-with) first.

## Pick from

- What's the goal in this situation?
- Who is the team — and who else is in the room when you're not?
- What's true about *you* in this (energy, skill, constraints)?
- What's the environment doing (incentives, politics, time pressure)?
- Are you treating this as zero-sum when it might be positive-sum?

## Stop

One question asked. Unsure which leadership pack: [Leadership lens router](sand-workflow:leadership-lens-questions).