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Decision Rights
Who has authority to commit capital, at what threshold, with what review?
Two decades in the CFO chair taught me the same wall hits every mid-market company — and I codified what gets through it.
Decision Architecture is the operating discipline most PE-backed mid-market companies don't have. I built it. I teach it. I run it.
Decision Architecture
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Decision Logic
What assumptions drive the choice? What’s the downside? What are we walking away from by saying yes?
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Decision Review
When do we revisit? What makes a decision accountable to a future check-in?
Field Notes
The most recent essays from Medium. See all field notes for more.
The Cost of Maybe | Field Notes | Mark J. Crawford
And whoever you give it to almost always knows less than you do. Continue reading on Medium »
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Eleven People, One Decision, and a $510,000 Delay
The most expensive line item on your P&L is the one that never appears on it. Continue reading on Medium »
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The $30M Cliff: Service Firms Fragment, Not Scale | Field Notes | Mark J. Crawford
Monday, 9:10 a.m. The weekly “green-yellow-red” opens like every other one this quarter. The COO pulls up the gross margin waterfall. Last… Continue reading on Medium »
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