Decision playbook
Hire and Organize
Research for choosing people, assigning decision rights, and designing an organization that remains effective as it grows.
Connect talent judgment, incentives, culture, and structure to the work the company must perform.
Mental models
Improve people judgment
Reduce predictable errors in selection and evaluation.
People
Study organization builders
Compare leaders with explicit systems for talent and autonomy.
Businesses
Compare operating cultures
See how structure supports distinct strategies.
Frameworks
Design the decision system
Clarify who decides, who advises, and how the team learns.
Frequently asked questions
- Who should a founder hire first?
- Hire for the most persistent constraint, not the most familiar job title, and define the outcome that person must own.
- When should structure change?
- Change structure when decision latency, duplicated ownership, or coordination costs repeatedly block execution.