How to write a vision anyone will actually remember
Draft the better-future version, compress it, then run the stranger test. If they cannot repeat it back tomorrow, it is not finished.
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Organization
Is your structure enabling or blocking the work?
An org chart describes reporting lines. It doesn’t describe how decisions actually get made, or where the real bottlenecks sit. Organization is about the structures — vision, strategy, team boundaries — that either enable the work or quietly work against it.
Is our strategy any good
Five properties as pass or fail, resources with real numbers, and the scenarios it has to survive.
Get the worksheetOur OKRs are not working
Count your metrics first. Then run every key result through one question: whose behavior changes, and how would you know?
Get the worksheetHow should we organize our engineering teams
Classify every team, name the interaction mode between each pair, and flag the ones carrying too many domains.
Get the worksheetEveryone is overloaded and I do not know why
Excess work in process is the symptom. Vision, strategy, OKRs, or structure is the cause. This finds which one.
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Business, product, and technology strategy, filled in side by side by the three people who own them.
Get the worksheetIs your structure Taylor's or Deming's
A hundred-year-old argument about who gets to decide, still running under your org chart.
Get the worksheetDoing more with less, without the lie in it
Cutting headcount and calling it efficiency is not the same thing as doing more with less.
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