Ideas for founders navigating greater complexity. Read them without an account, use what is useful, and return when the terrain changes.
The Library gathers the shorter works around the seven-book canon. Some name a pattern. Others offer a diagnostic, a practical sequence, or a clearer way to read the stage you are in.
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Field paper · 8 minute read
The qualities that built the company can become the structure that limits what it becomes next. See how Capability, Authority and Identity create founder dependency, then use the two week test to locate where the company still runs through you.
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Book excerpt · 7 minute read
Scaling changes what the founder's job is. Follow the six shifts from doer to leader, operator to architect, and source of decisions to source of the decision-making system, in the order they tend to arrive.
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