Everyone you’d normally ask works for you, and people who work for you tell you what’s safe to say. So you take one decision to one person outside the building. I read it the way I read a deal: where it’s stalling, what you keep putting off, and the first move.
In writing first. Then an hour, or two.
You send the situation in writing, so the hour goes to the problem and not the backstory. Writing it down does half the work before we meet, and the question gets sharper as you write it. Sometimes the answer arrives in the writing, and you keep your money.
Then one hour, or two. No program and no standing appointment. If you want a monthly rhythm, the two hours can be that, one decision at a time. What you tell me stays between us.
It’s for the person at the top: an owner, a founder, an executive, with a decision that has a number on it and nobody around them who can say the hard thing.
Now and then someone reads this site and doesn’t need videos, a pitch or a team. They have a situation that doesn’t fit a page: a negotiation, a hire, a partner, a meeting they only get once. They want the way I read people and decisions, pointed at that.
This is where you ask. Write it down and send it. If I can help, you’ll hear how. If I can’t, you’ll hear that, and who might.
In writing, as plainly as you can. It comes to me and nobody else.