PathMBA Playbooks

Concrete moves for the calls you can’t outsource.

Operating playbooks for senior operators — board dynamics, layoffs, executive transitions, the meetings that decide quarters. Sourced from real corpus, written to be used not admired.

The Board Trust Playbook: How to Build the Relationship Before You Need It
Most CEOs treat their board like a reporting obligation. The ones who survive treat it like a strategic asset they invest in before every crisis.
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Communicating Layoffs Without Losing the People Who Stay
A senior-operator playbook for planning, delivering, and following through on workforce reductions—so the message lands once and the organization recovers fast.
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Your First 90 Days on the Executive Team: A Playbook for New C-Suite Leaders
Joining the leadership team isn't about proving your functional expertise. It's about learning how decisions get made—and earning the right to shape them.
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The Executive Onboarding Playbook: 90 Days to a Functioning Leadership Team
Most leaders treat a new C-suite hire as a single personnel event. It's a team rebuild. Here's how to run it.
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The Executive Team Meeting That Doesn't Waste the Room
Most leadership meetings drift into report-outs and firefighting. Here's how to restructure them so they produce decisions, not updates.
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