712Course · Professional
Institution Building
The founder's final craft.
Institution-building is the founder's final craft: the disciplined design of decision rights, memory, and succession that outlast the founder. This course names what makes an institution durable, and closes with an oral-defense capstone.
- 01
State what makes an institution durable.
- 02
Design decision rights that outlast the founder.
- 03
Prepare succession without shame.
Pacing
2 weeks · ~6 hours plus the Capstone.
- IModule
What endures
- IIModule
Design
- IIIModule
Applied
A Note from the Faculty
A firm is a company. An institution is a firm that survives its founder without losing its purpose. Aim higher than the first.