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Free tools from the firm for boards and investors deciding who leads: a source counter that runs in your browser, one-page tests for the leadership decisions that come up most, and our newsletter.

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The Source Map.

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.

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Five questions to ask before the vote.

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.

Issue 1  ·  Succession

The Familiarity Test

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.

Issue 2  ·  Shared top seat

The Boundary Test

Five tests before a shared top seat. Use it before you appoint co-CEOs or split the top job between two leaders.

Issue 3  ·  Leader before a sale

The Seat Test

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.

Issue 4  ·  A new CEO’s first team

The Team Test

Five tests for underwriting a new CEO’s first team. Use it when a new CEO is rebuilding the team.

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The method, applied in public.

Every two weeks, one leadership decision from the news, read the way a diligence team would read it. Free, and written for board members, investors, family offices and their advisors.

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