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Jordan Park just landed his first Chief of Staff job. He came from consulting. He brought a 90-day plan, a stakeholder map, and the confidence of someone who has never been in the room where decisions actually happen.
His CEO didn't read the plan. She told him to walk around and listen. Then she changed direction over the weekend and forgot to tell him.
Every week, you get a new chapter in Jordan's story, a named pattern you can use in your own role, and one line about the system Jordan doesn't have yet. The story creates recognition. The pattern creates value. Together they give you a reason to open every edition.
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A cold-open story that drops you into a specific moment in Jordan's week. Dialogue. Internal monologue. The details that make you forget you're reading a newsletter.
A short, raw entry from Jordan's actual notebook. The thing he writes down after the moment passes. Honest. Unpolished. The thought you don't say out loud.
Michelle breaks the fourth wall to name the CEO behavior pattern Jordan just experienced. Two to three specific moves you can make this week. The value layer that keeps you opening every edition.
A single callout naming the framework that would solve Jordan's problem. No explanation. Just the name and what it does. Jordan doesn't see it. You do.
Michelle is the founder of Find MAC, author of "Cracking the Code: The Ultimate Guide to the Chief of Staff Role," and the creator of The Chiefs of Staff Circle. She has spent years studying the patterns that make or break the CEO-CoS relationship.
This newsletter gives away the struggle for free. The complete system lives in the book and the community. Both were built for the moments this newsletter describes.
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