• Corporate Meeting Audit: The Six Meetings Your Company Should Cancel This Quarter

    Corporate Meeting Audit: The Six Meetings Your Company Should Cancel This Quarter

    THE SOVEREIGN BRIEF | Dispatch #033 A corporate meeting audit takes ninety minutes to run and costs your company nothing. Last dispatch gave you a Sunday protocol that produces a list of marked calendar entries. Everything under the T column is Coordination Theater. This dispatch names what is on that list. The Formula Stop describing meetings as…

  • Executive Weekly Review: The Four-Hour Sovereign Sunday Protocol

    Executive Weekly Review: The Four-Hour Sovereign Sunday Protocol

    THE SOVEREIGN BRIEF | Dispatch #032 Executive Weekly Review: The Four-Hour Sovereign Sunday Protocol The executive weekly review is the only four hours in your week that nobody else has a claim on. Last dispatch handed you twelve books. Reading them changes nothing on its own. Input without a container leaks. This is the container. The Sunday…

  • Books That Replace an MBA: The Sovereign Twelve-Title Reading List

    Books That Replace an MBA: The Sovereign Twelve-Title Reading List

    THE SOVEREIGN BRIEF | Dispatch #031 The Sovereign Reading List: The Twelve Books That Replace an MBA Books that replace an MBA rarely appear on a business school syllabus, and that’s exactly the point. An MBA teaches frameworks. It doesn’t teach composure under a bad reorg, how to read a room eleven minutes before you’re handed the…