The Personal Guarantee
Risk that lands on your own family is assessed differently from risk that lands on an institution, and it should be. The failure is not knowing…
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When You Own the Thing You Lead
An owner-operator has no separation between personal exposure and institutional judgment. Most of the distinctive difficulty of running a closely held business follows from that single…
Read →The Public Hearing
A hearing is not a vote and it is not a consultation. Understanding what it actually is resolves most of what goes wrong in one, on…
Read →Reading a Budget You Did Not Write
Most of a public body's real authority sits in the budget, and most members never learn to read one. Six questions that produce more than any…
Read →The Smallest Useful First Step
Nobody begins by running for something. The route in is a sequence of small commitments, and the first one costs an evening.
Read →The Seat Nobody Contested
An uncontested seat is not consensus. It is the point at which a community stopped choosing, and the consequences arrive quietly over the following decade.
Read →Deciding Among Neighbours
In a small community the people on both sides of a decision will still be there afterward, and so will you. That constraint changes how a…
Read →How Public Trust Is Built and Spent
Legitimacy accumulates through explained reasoning and consistent conduct over years, and it is spent by a single decision nobody can account for. The exchange rate is…
Read →Your First Year on a Public Body
You will be asked to vote on things you do not yet understand, under constraints nobody has explained. What to do in the first month, and…
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