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.
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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 specification
Return a CEO-COO working agreement with role_thesis, decision_classes, proxy_authority, appeals, private_operating_session, communication, conflict_rules, anti_patterns, and success_measures.
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 specification
Return a company operating model with strategy_translation, seven_components, functional_seams, stage_fit, coo_boundary, forums_and_authority, and system_measures.
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 specification
Return a COO operating-model audit with scores_and_disagreement, accountability_quality, miss_diagnosis, failure_modes, binding_constraint, system_change, absence_test, 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 specification
Return a COO role thesis with operating_gap, alternatives, pattern_replaced, stage, archetype, authority_and_boundaries, CEO_stop_list, scorecard, and success_and_evolution.
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 specification
Return a cross-functional execution architecture with work_type, outcome, owner_sponsor_contributors, decision_spine, milestones, dependencies, risks_and_escalation, cadence, exit_criteria, and system_learning.
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 specification
Return an execution risk and metabolism register with decision_map, authority_gaps, tradeoffs, decision_spines, metabolism, operating_debt, resource_actions, and review_metrics.
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.