The Executive Desk
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skills/06
├ board-update
├ decision-memo
├ first-120-days
├ one-page-plan
├ quarterly-operating-review
├ strategy-stress-test
agents/01
├ chief-of-staff
commands/01
├ /decision
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Built for Claude first, our recommended agent. Skills follow the open Agent Skills standard (SKILL.md), so they also run in any agent that reads it; subagents and slash commands are Claude Code formats.
The Executive Desk
The operating rhythm of a leader, as tools
six skills·one subagent·one command·8-page guide
Your agent writes the documents a leader is judged on: the decision memo, the stress-tested strategy, the quarterly review and the board update, in the structure the manuals describe.
Executive summary
- The problem
- The documents a leader is judged on are often assembled the night before: a recommendation with no criteria behind it, a quarter with the missing numbers smoothed over, a board update that is all highlights. Your AI will write all three fluently, and fill the gaps without saying so.
- What it does
- decision-memo stops for your weights before it recommends, strategy-stress-test returns a pass, weak or fail verdict on five lenses, quarterly-operating-review marks missing numbers missing, and the chief-of-staff subagent drafts pre-reads but never sends.
- Why take it
- The document you take into the room is the record of your judgment. This makes it one you can stand behind when the board reads it again next quarter.
For founders, general managers and function heads who run an operating rhythm and report to a board.
In the first week you will
- 01Run /decision on the call you have been circling and get the one-page memo with three options and a recommendation
- 02Put your strategy through strategy-stress-test and get a pass, weak or fail verdict on each of the five lenses
- 03Assemble the quarter with quarterly-operating-review, with every missing number marked missing rather than estimated
Contents of the Kit
- 01Six installable agent skills: decision-memo, strategy-stress-test, quarterly-operating-review, board-update, one-page-plan, first-120-days
- 02The chief-of-staff subagent: turns notes and documents into meeting pre-reads and an action register, and never sends anything
- 03A /decision slash command that opens a one-page decision memo from a sentence
- 04The strategy stress test: VRIO, the Value Stick, three horizons, the not-to-do test and a pre-mortem, run in one pass with a pass, weak or fail verdict per lens
- 05Blank templates for the decision memo and the one-page plan
- 06An 8-page Field Guide on the operating rhythm, and plugin manifest included
One skill, as it ships
SKILL.md
decision-memo
- Use when
- Use when a leader has to decide something and explain the decision, when a team is debating in circles, before a steering or leadership meeting, or when someone says "we need to decide on X by Friday". Refuses to recommend when criteria or weights are missing.
- Requires
- The decision, in the user's words · The deadline and what happens if it passes · Criteria and their weights · Who decides
- Will not
- No recommendation without user-weighted criteria · Never invent evidence, prices, market figures or probabilities · Never remove an option the user proposed, even a weak one
- Returns
- Decision memo: {decision in one line}
One of six skills in the kit · All of them install the same way
The contents, in full · six skills, one subagent, one command
- 01decision-memoOne page: the decision, the deadline, at least three options including doing nothing, criteria you weight, evidence per option, risks, recommendation, what would change it, who decides.
- 02strategy-stress-testRuns a stated strategy through VRIO, the Value Stick, three horizons, the "what are we choosing not to do" test and a pre-mortem. Returns a findings table and the questions the strategy cannot yet answer.
- 03quarterly-operating-reviewThe QOR pack from raw inputs: scorecard against targets, the three things that mattered, misses with causes, decisions required, next-quarter commitments.
- 04board-updateHeadline, numbers, highlights, lowlights, asks, cash and runway if supplied. Calm, no spin.
- 05one-page-planThe strategy pyramid on one page: purpose, where we play, how we win, capabilities, systems, twelve-month priorities and the not-to-do list.
- 06first-120-daysThe entry plan for a new seat: listen, diagnose, decide, deliver, with week-level milestones and a stakeholder map.
- 07chief-of-staff (subagent)Prepares pre-reads and follow-up lists from your notes, and turns documents into an action register. Read-only: it drafts, you send.
- 08/decisionOpens a one-page decision memo from a sentence about the call you are facing. It adds no option you did not name except doing nothing, and stops to ask for weights before it writes a recommendation.
Think Like a CEO and Think Like a CMO describe an operating rhythm: decisions written down, strategy tested before it is announced, a quarter reviewed against what was promised, a board told the truth in a fixed format. The Executive Desk makes each of those a tool that produces the document, in the structure the manual describes, from whatever inputs you actually have. A board update gives lowlights the same weight as highlights. The point is not speed; it is a rhythm that holds when the quarter is bad.
Pairs with
Think Like a CEO is where these disciplines come from. The manual makes the argument; this kit holds you to it every quarter. The Leadership Shelf carries this kit with that manual, its two companions and the other three leadership kits in one checkout.
Before you buy
01Do I need Claude Code?
No. Every skill uploads to claude.ai as a zip. Subagents and slash commands are the Claude Code extras.
02I am not a programmer.
Install is copying folders into a .claude directory. The Field Guide in each kit assumes nothing beyond that.
03Will it work in my agent?
Skills follow the open Agent Skills standard (SKILL.md), so any agent that reads it can run them. Built for Claude first, our recommended agent.
04Do the tools invent numbers?
Never. Every figure is supplied by you, confirmed by you, or labeled as an assumption in the output.
05How does it arrive?
Instantly. Pay by card and the download link is in your inbox within seconds, and on the confirmation screen.
06Is this a subscription?
No. One payment, lifetime access to your download, every future revision of what you bought included.
07What if it is not useful to me?
Write to info@conclusionmp.com within 14 days of purchase and you get a full refund. No questions, no forms.
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The Executive Desk, $12.
Instant download, one payment, every future revision included. Or take The Leadership Shelf, seven items for $45, and this kit works out at $6.43.