Guides
Where does a learning plans case study actually fail over one quarter?
A learning plans case study built in front of you for one quarter, showing the four points where such a plan fails and the cheap repair for each of them.
Desk
Value Desk
What the spending buys, over what period, and when it does not pay back.
Features
Learning plans tools rest on four words that are not quite synonyms
Learning plans vocabulary defined: knowledge, skill, ability and competency kept apart, four kinds of credential, and the words that describe practice itself.
Costs
A business book claim checklist: five kinds and twelve checks
A business book claim checklist of five claim kinds and twelve checks: sort the claim, ask which cases were looked at, and ask what would prove the author wrong.
Maintenance
One purchase described five ways, and which financial literacy answer the decision turns on
The five answers a spending decision hides behind: price, cash out, the charge to the period, the total over the life, and what the money displaces. No figures.
Guides
Financial literacy guide: the words inside a finance agreement and what they mean
Financial literacy guide to finance agreement words: principal, interest, term, default, remedy, recourse, guarantee, security, and their nearest neighbors.
Features
Which decision skills trends name a real property, not just a preference?
Decision skills trends 2027: which borrowed terms name a real property, one-way doors and pre-mortems among them, and which name only a preference about it.
Reviews
5 things worth knowing about decision skills metrics
Decision skills metrics that are honest: time to decide, share reopened, and whether the recorded reasoning held. Why outcome quality measures the wrong thing.
Industry
The corporate jargon trends that will still matter next year
Terms like rightsizing, quiet hiring and career pivot are already turning on the euphemism treadmill. Here are the words to watch and what to say instead.
Rules
How to measure corporate jargon with five document counts and three reader checks
Corporate jargon can be measured: five document counts, three reader checks, what readability formulas actually see, and why none of it should become a target.
Industry
Notes on communication skills questions from the field as of 2027
Eight communication skills questions that cannot be answered usefully, why the easy answer costs nothing, and the specific request that replaces each one.
Reviews
The business vocabulary questions worth asking before anything else
Business vocabulary questions sorted by who answers them: the ones with a settled answer, the ones a document decides, and the ones a jurisdiction decides.
Reviews
Business vocabulary for subscription pricing: MRR, ARR and churn defined
Defines the recurring revenue terms that subscription pricing depends on, pairing MRR, ARR and churn against the income and profit vocabulary founders already use.
Features
Business acumen in a monthly review: four true claims and the question that makes each checkable
A business acumen walkthrough of four true claims in one monthly review, what each leaves out, and the converting question that makes it checkable.
Reviews
Document classes that make up a business acumen toolkit
A business acumen toolkit is mostly documents. Each class is defined by the one question it is the authority on and the nearest document it gets confused with.
Costs
Decision skills mistakes, and the fixes that hold
Nine decision skills mistakes, from choosing criteria after seeing the options to judging a decision by its outcome, each with the tell that gives it away.
Costs
Business acumen examples: counting what you have actually won
Business acumen examples for counting what has been won: backlog against pipeline, order against framework, and where each price reduction lands.
Maintenance
Business acumen guide compares three statements against what each one answers
A business acumen guide to the three financial statements: which question each answers, the terms specific to each, and the order worth reading them in.
Guides
Cut distinctions and hardened euphemisms fill a corporate jargon mistakes checklist
Nine corporate jargon mistakes, from cutting a term that carried a real distinction to letting a euphemism harden into the organization's official name for it.