01Allocation
Attention
Protect the signals and questions that deserve executive focus.
Book · First edition · September 2026The Seven
The Seven
Allocations
How Exceptional CEOs Deploy Attention, Decisions, Capital, Talent, Trust, Time, and Optionality
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ALLOCATIONSAttention · Decisions · Capital · Talent · Trust · Time · Optionality
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ALLOCATIONSAttention · Decisions · Capital · Talent · Trust · Time · Optionality
A chief executive does not run every function. The chief executive decides where the enterprise places its scarce resources, which truths receive attention, which choices become commitments, which people hold the hardest roles, which relationships receive trust, which hours receive protection, and which future paths stay open.
The framework
Seven scarce resources shape enterprise direction.
The book treats CEO work as an allocation system. Each allocation affects the others, so leadership quality depends on the portfolio rather than one isolated decision.
02Allocation
Decisions
Build decision rights, speed and quality without centralising every choice.
03Allocation
Capital
Make strategy visible through where money and capacity move.
04Allocation
Talent
Place strong people on the work with the greatest enterprise value.
05Allocation
Trust
Treat credibility and stakeholder permission as operating capacity.
06Allocation
Time
Protect the calendar and run immediate and long-horizon clocks together.
07Allocation
Optionality
Build choices before shocks, constraints or opportunities make them urgent.
Publication record
A completed first-edition manuscript.
The September 2026 edition includes the CEO allocation framework, decision scenarios, a first-100-days application, hard-edge chapters on culture, incentives, metrics, ethics, communication and personal capacity, plus a field manual and research appendices.
01Attention is the first budget.
02Strategy becomes real where capital moves.
03Trust is operating capacity.
04The calendar is a leadership allocation.
05Optionality should be built before it is needed.