# Care Leader Guide

> Lead people who look after people.

Bicycle Guide reconciles the best books on a topic into one sourced guide and shows where they disagree.

Categories below are subject shelves: each groups guides that answer one kind of work or life problem. A guide's link points at its canonical home, which may be a persona front rather than this domain.

Care work is led mostly by people promoted out of doing it, with almost nothing written for the job they actually inherited. This is the travel-guide version: we read the serious books on running care and personal-service teams — staffing, safety, dignity, burnout, the economics nobody explains — planned the route, and marked every stop worth making.

Every guide linked below has a main guide free to read. Some clearly mark additional paid sections, tools and downloads. Guide pages include source information. Links point at each guide's own canonical home, which is not always this domain.

## Lead in Your Field
- [The Bicycle Guide to Lead Direct-Care Work](https://careleader.guide/guides/healthcare-support-leadership): Care Quality & Client Outcomes becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.
- [The Bicycle Guide to Lead Personal-Care Service Work](https://careleader.guide/guides/personal-care-leadership): Worker Well-Being becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.

## Capabilities
- The skills, knowledge, abilities and dispositions taught across multiple guides, joined to the books that ground them and the jobs that require them — see https://careleader.guide/capabilities
- [Committed Leadership for Change](https://careleader.guide/capabilities/ce_committed-leadership-for-change): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 7 books.
- [Worker Commitment and Motivation](https://careleader.guide/capabilities/ce_worker-commitment-and-motivation): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 4 books.
- [Cognitive Intelligence (IQ)](https://careleader.guide/capabilities/ce_cognitive-intelligence-iq): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.
- [Empathy](https://careleader.guide/capabilities/ce_empathy): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.
- [Humble Inquiry](https://careleader.guide/capabilities/ce_humble-inquiry): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.
- [Optimism](https://careleader.guide/capabilities/ce_optimism): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.

## Disagreements
- [Where the books disagree](https://careleader.guide/disagreements): 4 named disagreements with cited books on both sides — tension name, poles, and sources only.

## Books
- [Book library](https://careleader.guide/books): the source corpus every guide cites, browsable by subject.

## More
- [Full guide index](https://careleader.guide/guides): every guide this site serves, organized by shelf.
- [Sitemap](https://careleader.guide/sitemap.xml): every URL on this site, for a complete crawl.
- [MCP server](https://careleader.guide/mcp): remote Model Context Protocol access to the guide registry, taxonomy and capability spine — read-only, no auth required. Also served at https://careleader.guide/api/mcp.
- [MCP well-known descriptor](https://careleader.guide/.well-known/mcp.json): the same transport + tool list as machine-readable JSON, for a probe that checks .well-known before opening a session.
- [OpenAPI](https://careleader.guide/openapi.json): the same registry as a REST machine-readable spec.