Business Management. 40-Page Operator's Field Guide

Business management, not theory, not MBA platitudes. The actual operating craft: how to build systems, hire well, read a P&L, make decisions under uncertainty, and run a team that ships.

40 pages · Approx. ~20,000 words of operational craft.

Operating Systems

• Designing the OS→
• Weekly business review→
• Meetings that don't waste time→
• SOPs that get used→
• Decision logs→

People + Hiring

• Hiring, signal vs noise→
• The role scorecard→
• Onboarding that compounds→
• One-on-ones→
• Performance reviews→
• Firing well→

Finance + Economics

• The three numbers→
• P&L literacy→
• Unit economics→
• Pricing frameworks→
• Cash flow forecasting→

Strategy + Planning

• OKRs without the cult→
• Annual + quarterly planning→
• What to kill→
• Pre-mortems→
• Decision frameworks→

Sales + GTM

• Funnel math that matters→
• Pipeline design→
• Pricing + negotiation→
• Churn diagnostics→
• Customer success ops→

Execution + Delivery

• Process mapping→
• Automate vs hire→
• Vendor management→
• SLAs + SLOs→

Leadership + Culture

• Memo culture→
• Radical candor→
• Accountability without micromanagement→
• Compensation design→

Risk + Compliance

• Risk management basics→
• Data + IP protection→
• Business insurance→