Approach

Five steps. Then we stop or we continue.

Same method for a company and for a household. Short enough to remember. Strict enough that the work does not dissolve into meetings.

1. 01

   Listen

   What is actually going on — in the company or in the household — without a framework dropped on it first.

2. 02

   Map

   The constraints, the people, the calendar, and the few facts that change the rest.

3. 03

   Decide

   A small set of decisions, owned by you. Advice is not a substitute for the person who has to live with it.

4. 04

   Install

   The change has to land in the week: a process, a plan, a conversation, a physical arrangement. Paper that never leaves the folder is not the work.

5. 05

   Review

   Come back. See what held. Cut what did not. Then stop, or continue, on purpose.