executive support for founders and CEOs
Decision design for neurodivergent entrepreneurs
Better decisions often begin by reducing the amount of context a brain has to hold at once.
Get the decision out of your head
Write the question, deadline, options, constraints and people affected in one place. This reduces the need to reconstruct the whole situation every time attention returns to it.
Separate thinking from deciding
Exploration can stay broad for a defined period. Decision time needs a smaller field, explicit criteria and permission to park attractive ideas that do not serve the current goal.
Design a landing place
A decision is incomplete until the next action, owner and review point exist. Use a visible system that is easy to return to after interruption, not a perfect productivity setup that requires constant maintenance.
Put the answer to work
Use this guidance against one live decision. Name the outcome, owner, evidence and next review point, then record what the business will do differently. Where the choice carries material legal, technical, financial, security or people consequences, bring the relevant specialist into the decision while keeping business ownership explicit.
What to carry into the work
- Externalise the context
- Time-box exploration
- Use explicit decision criteria
- Give every decision a landing place