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Skill assessments rest on two properties: every instrument has to earn both
Skill assessments explained: what the words mean, the two properties every instrument has, what each type can see, and what no assessment can measure at all.
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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.
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Twelve jargon metaphors compared with the original fields they came from
Twelve corporate jargon metaphors traced to their original fields, with the claim each one smuggles in and the shorter sentence that replaces it honestly.
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A communication skills case study checklist: six hidden defects, one sentence
A communication skills walkthrough of one invented sentence carrying six named defects, from scope ambiguity to a deadline that is not one, each with its repair.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Communication skills mistakes seen from the repair side
Nine communication skills mistakes, from a buried ask to a date agreed under pressure, each with the repair and what the writer was protecting themselves from.
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How to work through business acumen as six ordered questions about one purchase
Business acumen as six questions asked in order about one decision, from what is being bought to which risks can be priced and which can only be watched.