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Essays on decisions, meetings and founders. Most of them first went out as Decided, the newsletter.
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The meeting that decides nothing
Why your weekly leadership meeting is a status report in disguise, and the three-part agenda that fixes it.
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Stop hiring a COO to fix a founder habit
Three questions to ask before you open the search.
Write the decision down. All of it.
The one-page template I give every client on day one.
Decision debt, explained in one table
The four kinds, how to spot them and what each one costs.
What founders get wrong about delegation
Delegating tasks is easy. Delegating decisions is the job.
The two-hour rule for escalations
Why every stuck decision should have a clock on it.
Your org chart is not the problem
Before you redraw the boxes, count the decisions that cross them.
How to say no to a client without losing them
A short script for the scope conversation nobody wants to have.
The first 90 days of a new COO
What to hand over, in what order, and what to keep.
A decision log anyone can keep
One shared document, five columns, no software.
Why your best manager wants to leave
It is rarely the pay. It is usually the waiting.
Fewer meetings is the wrong goal
Count decisions, not hours.
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I write about decisions, meetings, founders, hiring and operations. Mostly decisions. (Meetings, Hiring, Decisions, Founders, Operations)