Frame the decision
Name the question you are answering, and the one you are not.
The course teaches FRAME, a five-step method for thinking a business decision through. 50 real-company cases make it stick.
10 chapters · 18 methods · 50 cases · Personal + team access
Decision point
The factory makes 100% of your product and is quietly looking for another distributor.
You disagreed with Nike. Strong: the call compares cost, preserves an option and names a trigger.
Your argument
Renegotiate for a 12-month exclusive while qualifying a second factory. This protects supply without funding a brand launch from zero; switch if exclusivity is refused by 30 June.
50 cases, 50 real companies. New case every week.
Most bad calls are confident answers to the wrong question. FRAME is five checks that catch the gap before you commit, backed by methods that do the work.
Name the question you are answering, and the one you are not.
Use the evidence in front of you. Say what you are ignoring, and why.
Compare two genuinely different paths. Name what each costs.
Say what you do not know. Cap the downside and name the tripwire.
Commit, then decide in advance what would make you stop or revise.
Eighteen methods in all, each taught when a decision needs it.
Across one company year, you are the chief of staff. Decisions arrive through emails, dashboards and board memos.
18 methods of clear business thinking arrive as the year unfolds.
Each case gives you the situation and constraints. You make the call before the ending is known, defend it, and only then compare with history.
Selected cases begin with a quick decision before any result is revealed.
Selected casesGet the facts and constraints available when the company faced the fork.
Agree with the historical call or argue against it. Either can score well.
Use evidence, compare an alternative and say what would change your mind.
Get five dimension scores, then compare your reasoning with the outcome.
Five FRAME dimensions, twenty points each. Completion earns nothing, and matching the company earns nothing by itself.
Example judgement rating
82/100Illustrative profile · 19 rated casesWeakest dimension in this example: Alternatives. The memo defends one option without comparing a second. See how inversion fixes that
Every score shows its evidence. Every argument stays in your workbook.
Read the full scoring rubricPick a company, make the call, and keep the argument in your workbook.
Case 43 · Nike · 1971
The factory makes all your product and is quietly shopping for another distributor.
Play this caseCase 42 · Rolex
Demand exceeds supply. Making more could be how the category loses its value.
Play this caseCase 41 · SoftBank
The loss is public. The next allocation decision is due now.
Play this caseYour rating, completed cases and the arguments that earned them live behind one public, verifiable link.
Open your case logdecidenda · business judgement
19 cases closed and defended on the published FRAME rubric.
Example case log · updated as you practiseChoose one short case session, or launch a prepared learning programme for a new cohort.
Share one invitation. Everyone answers before seeing the room. The host decides when to stop and reveal.
Create a case roomCompose the existing FRAME course and company cases into one path with invitations, reminders and a privacy-safe cohort report.
Preview the programmePersonal + team access stays free forever when you register by 15 September.
See free founding accessStart with Chapter 1, or open the Nike case.
Personal + team access stays free forever when you register by 15 September.
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