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Free tools for leaders, and the people who back them.
A guide for leaders choosing a coach, a source counter that runs in your browser, one-page tests for the leadership decisions boards and investors face most, and our newsletter.
A guide for leaders choosing a coach, a source counter that runs in your browser, one-page tests for the leadership decisions boards and investors face most, and our newsletter.
What to check before you hire a coach: fit, credentials, how the work is structured, conflicts of interest and fees. It ends with ten questions to ask any coach, on a page you can print.
For founders and CEOs, and for the boards and investors who hire coaches for the leaders they back.
Count how many genuinely separate sources sit behind your view of a founder or CEO. Seven questions, then a working map. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Eleven accounts of a leader can boil down to a handful of separate sources. The Source Map shows you how many you actually have, and what to do next at each count.
Each test comes from an issue of Leadership, Underwritten and fits on one page, with room for notes. Bring it to the board meeting or the investment committee.
Five tests before a decision that rests on one person. Use it before you appoint, extend or back a leader the room already knows well.
Five tests before a shared top seat. Use it before you appoint co-CEOs or split the top job between two leaders.
Five tests before backing a leader in a company that may change hands. Use it when a sale, merger or new owner could change the job the leader was chosen for.
Five tests for underwriting a new CEO’s first team. Use it when a new CEO is rebuilding the team.
Five tests before backing a brand-new job. Use it before you approve a senior role no one at the company has held before.
Five tests for a company that runs through one person. Use it before you need to answer who runs the company tomorrow.
Subscribe to Leadership, Underwritten and the full set arrives in your welcome email. New tests are added as new issues come out.
Leadership, Underwritten, our newsletter, reads one leadership decision from the news every two weeks, the way a diligence team would. Free, for the board members and investors who judge leaders, and for the executives who want to see how they are judged. Our one-page tests are included.
