Great COO
Source-grounded pack with CEO COO Working Agreement, Company Operating Model Map, and COO Leverage Dashboard, plus 3 more.
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Choose this pack when the work touches Great COO and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.
Included workflows
Choose the job in front of you.
6 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.
CEO COO Working Agreement
Use this workflow when CEO–COO trust, proxy authority, private disagreement, executive appeals, casual CEO commitments, or public alignment are ambiguous and the company risks triangulation, private reversals, two governments, toothless coordination, or shadow-CEO behavior.
Output Return a CEO-COO working agreement with rolethesis, decisionclasses, proxyauthority, appeals, privateoperatingsession, communication, conflictrules, antipatterns, and successmeasures.
Company Operating Model Map
Use this workflow when strategy is not becoming resourced execution, functional clocks are drifting, the CEO remains the integration layer, or a COO must design stage-appropriate cadence, accountability, decision flow, allocation, cross-functional execution, reality sensing, and operating-debt management.
Output Return a company operating model with strategytranslation, sevencomponents, functionalseams, stagefit, cooboundary, forumsandauthority, and systemmeasures.
COO Leverage Dashboard
Use this workflow when leadership must audit whether the COO role and accountability system make the company faster, clearer, more reliable, and less heroic—or instead create vague authority, shadow leadership, centralized decisions, reporting bureaucracy, process drag, and COO dependency.
Output Return a COO operating-model audit with scoresanddisagreement, accountabilityquality, missdiagnosis, failuremodes, bindingconstraint, systemchange, absencetest, and retest.
COO Role Thesis
Use this workflow when leaders are considering, hiring, redefining, or replacing a COO and must distinguish a real integration gap from CEO overload, strategic ambiguity, weak functional leadership, or executive decoration, then select a stage-fit founder-counterpart, integrator, scale, commercial, transformation, or president archetype.
Output Return a COO role thesis with operatinggap, alternatives, patternreplaced, stage, archetype, authorityandboundaries, CEOstoplist, scorecard, and successandevolution.
Cross-Functional Issue Room
Use this workflow when a launch, strategic initiative, customer-critical commitment, transformation, recurring handoff, or crisis spans functions and needs one accountable owner, a sponsor, contributors, decision spine, dependencies, milestones, escalation, and exit criteria without permanent COO project glue.
Output Return a cross-functional execution architecture with worktype, outcome, ownersponsorcontributors, decisionspine, milestones, dependencies, risksandescalation, cadence, exitcriteria, and systemlearning.
Execution Risk Register
Use this workflow when decisions, risks, resources, or reality move too slowly through the company and the COO needs to map recurring decision fog, escalation, company metabolism, resource blockage, and operating debt without becoming the destination for every unresolved issue.
Output Return an execution risk and metabolism register with decisionmap, authoritygaps, tradeoffs, decisionspines, metabolism, operatingdebt, resourceactions, and reviewmetrics.
Human review
Keep consequential decisions explicit.
These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.
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10 source essays · 6 usable skills · reviewed Jul 2026