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Fractional Executive Pricing: The Retainer Model Behind the Three-Client Practice
THE SOVEREIGN BRIEF | Dispatch #026 Fractional executive pricing is the one skill nobody teaches inside a corporate career, and it is the exact reason most executives who go independent end up working harder for less money than they made on salary. Dispatch #025 gave you the vendor mindset. Good start. A mindset without a pricing model…
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The Vendor Mindset: Why Your $200k Salary Is Actually a $400/Hour Tax
THE SOVEREIGN BRIEF | Dispatch #025 A vendor mindset starts with a question most executives never ask: what would I charge for this if I had to invoice for it. Not what does the offer letter say. What is the actual market rate for the specific, transferable value you produce. Dispatch #024 gave you the pre-mortem. This…
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The Pre-Mortem Protocol: How to War-Game Your Own Firing Before HR Does
THE SOVEREIGN BRIEF | Dispatch #024 A pre-mortem protocol assumes the failure has already happened and works backward. Somewhere in your organization, a workforce planning slide already models your function as a line item that could be removed. Dispatch #020 named the signals for that slide. This dispatch is what you do about it before it exists.…



