Tool Library

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Company 7

Diagnostic

A ten-minute company diagnostic: score seven areas 0–10 — business growth, strategy, fundraising & runway, culture, hiring & org structure, founder performance, management performance — to find where to dig next. Includes the full health scorecard for going deeper.

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Symptom Map

Diagnostic

Start with what the founder says, then trace symptoms to the capabilities they point to.

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CEO Test

Diagnostic

Score yourself 1–5 on four questions that check destination, plan, team alignment and execution confidence.

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Company Pulse Check

Diagnostic

A recurring anonymous company-wide survey — eNPS plus a few pulse questions — that tracks how people actually feel about working here before problems surface elsewhere.

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Happiness Check

Conversation

Three questions asked on a regular cadence that surface how someone actually feels about working here — before the resignation letter does.

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Premortem

Exercise

Imagines a decision has already failed and lists how it went wrong, ranked by likelihood, so the top risks get mitigated while it is still cheap.

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RAG Company Status

Diagnostic

A red-amber-green traffic-light view of company health and quarterly goals that surfaces where the founder needs to rove and repair.

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Team Traffic Lighting

Diagnostic

Rates every team green, amber or red on delivery, self-improvement and ability to scale, so org attention goes where the company is actually blocked.

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Zone of Genius

Diagnostic

Identify the work only you can do at your highest level of contribution.

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7 Powers

Framework

A framework for identifying durable competitive advantage — the benefit and barrier that let a business sustain superior returns.

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AI Strategy Stress Test

Framework

Traffic-lights each of your 7 Powers under AI and maps the five-to-seven-year threats and opportunities, so strategy accounts for the moats AI erodes and the ones it lets you build.

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North Star & Health Metrics

Framework

Aligns the company around one North Star metric to maximise absolutely, guarded by a small set of health metrics that must stay above agreed thresholds.

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OKRs

Framework

Connect the company milestone to quarterly team goals, measurable outcomes and regular traffic-light accountability.

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Opportunity & Threat Map

Framework

Plots opportunities and threats on one magnitude × likelihood grid so strategy conversations rank what could help or hurt instead of listing everything equally.

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Six Critical Questions

Framework

Six questions the leadership team must answer together — with no contradictions — to create real organizational clarity.

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Strategy One-Pager

Template

A one-page summary of destination, strategy, priorities, risks and what good looks like.

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Ownership Map

Framework

Clarifies who owns which outcomes, metrics, risks and decisions.

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AI Adoption Cadence

Rhythm

A recurring explore → trial → execute review that keeps you and the company current on AI — deliberate enough to avoid falling behind, bounded enough to stop daily shiny-thing chasing.

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AI Champions

Template

A playbook for naming your most AI-enthusiastic people as internal champions who trial new tools, consult across departments and spread adoption through the company.

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Chapters & Squads

Framework

Scales a product org with cross-functional squads that own one slice of the user journey, while chapters keep each craft consistent across squads.

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Commitment Loop

Rhythm

A meeting ritual that opens with how the last commitments went and closes with new measurable, time-bound commitments — so accountability lives in the system, not in the founder's follow-up.

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Create, Collaborate, Communicate

Framework

A three-mode model for running a decision — how much you create yourself, who you collaborate with, and how you communicate it — so people know whether they're shaping a call or hearing one.

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Founder Job Description

Template

Writes the founder's job for this stage — zone of genius crossed with what the company needs, worked backwards from the next milestone — and rewrites it every six months.

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Operating Cadence

Framework

The weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual rhythm that keeps the company aligned — a retro and planning cadence plus regular accountability check-ins, with enough space for strategy.

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Leadership Hats

Framework

Choose the right leadership mode for the person and moment instead of defaulting to advice, control or rescue.

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Two-Hour Constraint

Exercise

A hard prioritisation drill that reveals highest-leverage founder work by constraining time to two hours a day.

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2-Minute Hard Convo Prep

Exercise

Two minutes before any hard conversation: write the three things you want to get across and the three emotions you want to bring into the room.

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30-60-90 Plan

Template

A written plan for a new hire's first 30, 60 and 90 days with transparent evaluation checkpoints from day one.

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Accountability Dial

Framework

A graduated approach to holding standards from a nudge to a hard conversation.

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Alignment vs. Autonomy

Framework

A 2×2 for diagnosing whether teams have enough shared direction and enough decision freedom.

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Coaching Questions

Conversation

Questions that help people think for themselves rather than receive answers — the seven essential questions plus founder additions.

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Delegation Ladder

Framework

A framework for moving from task delegation to full ownership — map where the company still depends on you, name the level of authority you are handing over, and plan the handoffs quarter by quarter.

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Development Pipeline

Diagnostic

Finds where someone's development is actually stuck — insight, motivation, capabilities, real-world practice or accountability — so effort goes to the constriction instead of defaulting to training.

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Double Diamond

Framework

A four-phase problem-solving shape — Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver — that makes you widen before you narrow, twice, so you find the right problem before the right solution.

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Employee Love Languages

Framework

Five currencies of motivation — salary, upside, learning, responsibility, proximity — because people are paid in more than money and everyone weights them differently.

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First Principles Thinking

Framework

Break a problem down to what you know is actually true, then reason back up — instead of copying what everyone else does by analogy.

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Four Disciplines of Organizational Health

Framework

Four sequential disciplines — cohesive team, clarity, over-communication, and systems — that turn organizational health into competitive advantage.

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How to Let Someone Go

Conversation

A step-by-step playbook for the conversation where you let someone go — the decision stated cleanly, the reasons concrete, dignity intact and the risks planned before you walk in.

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KSS Feedback

Conversation

A Keep / Start / Stop feedback format that depersonalises difficult conversations and sharpens behaviour change.

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Performance × Culture Grid

Diagnostic

Scores role performance and values behaviour, then maps each person to a clear talent decision quadrant.

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SBI Feedback

Conversation

Situation-Behaviour-Impact feedback format for clear, actionable conversations.

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Senior Hire Process

Template

A worked example of a serious senior-hire process — a four-phase interview loop ending in a strategy task presented to the C-level — designed to be stripped back for smaller roles.

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Six Thinking Hats

Framework

Look at a decision from six angles one at a time — facts, feelings, caution, optimism, creativity and process — so it gets examined from every side instead of one loud voice.

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The Leadership Test

Diagnostic

Six questions to run against every member of your leadership team — strategy, execution, culture, and whether the company is their first team.

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Values Deck

Template

Makes each company value practical with examples of too little, right amount and too much behaviour.

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Relationship Design Canvas

Framework

Design key working relationships on purpose by making expectations, cadence, decision rights and repair rules explicit — the working session whose output you capture in the Relationship One-Pager.

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1:1 Structure

Template

A repeatable structure for high-quality one-to-one conversations.

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Blob Tree

Exercise

A non-verbal reflection tool — pick the blob figures that match how you feel or where you sit in a group, then use that as a starting point for honest conversation.

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Crossing the Line

Framework

A three-zone model of any exchange — my intention, my words and behaviour, your reaction — that stops both sides assuming what only the other person can know.

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Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Framework

A pyramid model for building trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability and collective results on a leadership team.

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Nonviolent Communication

Framework

A four-part model for expressing observations, feelings, needs and requests without blame or judgment.

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Personal Histories + Trust

Exercise

A leadership-team exercise to build vulnerability-based trust by sharing formative stories and what each person needs to feel fully themselves.

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Relationship One-Pager

Template

The artifact a Relationship Design Canvas session produces: a shared one-page brief of purpose, expectations, working norms and repair rules that both people sign off and revisit.

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Relationship Reset

Conversation

A conversation that resets a strained working relationship by co-creating a happy future together — shared success definition and accountability included — instead of re-litigating the broken present.

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Stakeholder Map

Diagnostic

Maps the people the company most depends on — cofounder, direct reports, board — and scores each on relationship quality and performance confidence, so people-risk gets a location instead of staying a vague feeling.

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Board Pack

Template

A board meeting pack and running order — executive summary with wins and challenges, metrics broken down, the plan, a specific ask, AOB in seconds — that keeps the founder in control of the narrative.

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Investor Hell Yes Test

Diagnostic

A pre-fundraise filter that defines what would make the next round a hell yes — for you, your cofounder and the market — before you start the process.

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Investor Update

Template

A repeatable investor update format — key metrics, cash and runway, highlights, challenges, a specific ask and a team photo — that keeps investors aligned and useful between rounds.

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7 Core Founder Needs

Framework

Seven inputs that keep a founder running — exercise, eating, sleep, friends & family, solitude, training and vacation — each feeding a different capacity, with a target cadence for every one.

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Anti-Wasteman System

Framework

Turn a dream into a committed goal by stress-testing motivation, failure modes, support and the first action.

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Energy Audit

Diagnostic

Colour two weeks of your calendar green, amber or red by how each block left your energy — then run a second pass against your job description, and cut, delegate or redesign whatever fails either test.

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Habit Stacks

Template

Anchored sequences of habits at daily, weekly and monthly rhythms that turn founder intentions into repeatable rituals.

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Human 9

Diagnostic

A personal scoring tool across relationships, health, lifestyle, income and wealth.

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Live It Today

Framework

The Vision Board's companion move: take the five-year picture and extract which parts of it you can start living this year instead of deferring the whole thing to a future payoff.

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Parts Work

Exercise

Give each of your inner parts a name and a seat — the self-critic, the striver, the vacationer — let each say what it wants for you, and stay in charge of the final call.

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Personal Board

Framework

Assemble a board of people you know and trust — deliberately wide in backgrounds — that supports your growth and gets called on when you face big decisions.

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Personal Manual

Template

A written manual of how you work — plus pre-committed if-then rules like "if my burnout score is above 7, I book a vacation", written while you're well so you don't negotiate with yourself when you're not. The living home for what the Two Equilibria Map and Energy Audit uncover.

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Saboteurs Quiz

Diagnostic

Use the official Positive Intelligence assessment to identify the negative inner voices and patterns most likely to hijack you under pressure.

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Strength in Shadow

Framework

Map how one of your strengths turns into a liability when overexpressed, what balancing quality it needs, and what you attack in others when you are triggered.

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Super Self

Framework

Access your best-self mindset by asking what your ten-out-of-ten version would do — and what's stopping you from doing it now.

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The 10-Minute Retro

Exercise

A ten-minute quarterly reflection — three wins, three lowlights, three learnings — that turns the quarter into rules you actually act on.

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Two Equilibria Map

Framework

Map your good and bad equilibrium states, the triggers that tip you from one into the other, and the recovery moves that bring you back — the mapping exercise whose findings become standing rules in your Personal Manual.

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Vision Board

Template

A guided visualisation through the Human 9 domains of life five years from now, captured as a visual board, shared with someone, and reviewed on a rhythm through your habit stacks.

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