# Facilities Leader Guide

> Run the building and the grounds.

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.

Facilities is the job everyone notices only when it fails, and the literature reflects that. This is the travel-guide version: we read what is genuinely written on maintaining plant, grounds and cleaning operations at scale, 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 Facilities & Grounds Work](https://facilitiesleader.guide/guides/facilities-grounds-leadership): Worker Economic, Safety & Empowerment Outcomes becomes something you produce by design, not by luck.

## Careers & Professions
- [The Bicycle Guide to Facilities Grounds Leader](https://jobframe.global/guides/facilities-grounds-leader-m3): A coherent function where execution & operating excellence is the designed default.

## 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://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities
- [Empathy](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_empathy): taught across 3 guides, grounded in 56 books.
- [Focus and Prioritization](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_focus-and-prioritization): taught across 3 guides, grounded in 56 books.
- [Emotional Regulation](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_emotional-regulation): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 56 books.
- [Emotional Self-Awareness](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_emotional-self-awareness): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 56 books.
- [Cognitive Intelligence (IQ)](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_cognitive-intelligence-iq): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.
- [Identity Alignment](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_identity-alignment): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.
- [Optimism](https://facilitiesleader.guide/capabilities/ce_optimism): taught across 2 guides, grounded in 2 books.

## Disagreements
- [Where the books disagree](https://facilitiesleader.guide/disagreements): 2 named disagreements with cited books on both sides — tension name, poles, and sources only.

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

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