Advisor and governance

Self

Decision Rights

Every decision still routes through you. Make it clear who owns what so the team stops waiting and the business stops slowing down.

Self

Founder Isolation and Peer Networks

Nobody around you is in the same role. Build the two or three peers and one advisor who make hard decisions less lonely and faster.

Power and Judgment

The Advisory Spectrum

You are paying for advisors but the decisions still feel lonely. Pick the kind of outside counsel the business actually needs right now.

Power and Judgment

Building Your Inner Circle

Cofounder, partner, and advisor lines have blurred and decisions are getting messier. Reset the small group of people closest to the business.

Power and Judgment

Decision Frameworks

Big calls keep getting made in panic and you regret them later. Use the frameworks that hold up when pressure and conflict are highest.

Power and Judgment

Governance Without a Boardroom

You are not ready for a board but the founder cannot keep being the only check. Build the authority and oversight the company needs now.

Power and Judgment

The Seven Decision Pressures

You over-committed to a vendor and could not later say why. Read the seven decision pressures operating on you before you sign anything that matters.

Power and Judgment

Power When the Machine Does the Work

The old way to hold power was to be the only one who knew. AI reads everything now. Here is the power that survives it.

The Founder's Library

The Founder's Library

The books that shaped how the playbook thinks. Read in the order that matters. Authored by Alistair.