The Missing Seat
When Growing Companies Need an Independent Strategic Adviser
Every consequential decision deserves informed challenge. Explore independent advice, AI governance, operational resilience and the work that belongs at the leadership table.
This current manuscript precedes a forthcoming author revision. The edition available here contains 12 chapters and seven appendices across 46 PDF pages.
Publication candidate 1.0 · October 2026The judgment behind
the seat at the table.
- 01The Empty Chair
- 02The Cost of Not Knowing
- 03The Resilience Gap
- 04The AI Governance Crisis
- 05Intelligence Without Judgment
- 06The Independent Adviser
- 07The Economics of Advice
- 08The DREADNOUGHT Method
- 09From Fragility to Resilience
- 10The Executive Advisory Board
- 11Your First 90 Days
- 12The Missing Seat
Includes the Boardroom Blind Spot Worksheet, Executive Decision Worksheet, Bounded Advisory Engagement Charter, Recovery and Authority Exercise, Advisory Economics Worksheet, a Worked Decision Brief, and Evidence Notes and Reading.
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