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Tools for thinking about people, work and life.

Everything Pondering Tree makes does one job: it turns something hard to talk about into something you can put on the table and point at. There are four lines, each written and designed by Scott Buley and published in Adelaide.

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Blueprints for Leadership

A book series of visual blueprints you print large and draw on together. Great leadership can't make up for a poorly designed organisation, so each chapter gives you one blueprint (a theatre, a tribe, a harbour, a cathedral) and walks you through it as a hands-on workshop.

  • Volume 1 · out now
  • Volume 2 · 4 January 2027
  • Volumes 3–5 · early 2027
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Build Better

A deck of 122 coaching cards for friends, families and teams, or just you. Pick one person, work out what's really going on, sort the everyday behaviours that matter, pull the right lever and leave with one step said out loud. The deck works on its own; three Player's Guides show you how to play it for a different moment in life.

  • Build Better deck · $149.95
  • Start Better
  • Grow Better
  • Transition Better
  • 24 A3 playmats
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People in Places New

Books about how people show up in the places that matter: the interview room, the meeting, the kitchen table, the stage. The first is Places, Please, an actor's training for showing up in everyday life, with thirteen cues, film scenes and short scripted exercises you can run anywhere.

  • Places, Please · coming soon
  • Paperback and Kindle
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Choose Your Plumb, Find Your Place Later in 2026

The next Pondering Tree book is in the works. Create a free account and tick the monthly email to hear first when it's ready.