N° 04 · THE LIBRARY Reading · Frameworks · Templates
The Library . Field manuals, frameworks, essays, templates and recorded talks — the practitioner's reading room, curated for the executive on the rise.
N° 01 · Featured this season
The field manual we wish every new executive had read first.
Field manual · 24 pp · PDF
The first ninety days at altitude. A working manual for the newly-appointed executive. Day-one moves, week-one conversations, the ninety-day operating rhythm that prevents drift — and the three mistakes that cost new leaders most of their first year.
Framework Executive · C-suite Read · 18 min
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N° 02 · Framework PDF
The Board-ready AI Assurance Canvas. A one-page diagnostic for any board that must sign off on an AI programme — without becoming AI engineers overnight.
N° 03 · Essay 5 min
On inheriting a broken organisation. Every newly-appointed executive walks into a room already furnished. A short essay on reading it before re-arranging it.
N° 04 · Template .docx · .notion
Day-30 stakeholder constellation. A working template for mapping — and then <em>acting on</em> — the 14 relationships that will decide your first year.
N° 05 · Framework PDF
Digital assurance at executive altitude. A governance framework for leaders who must sign off on systems they did not commission and cannot fully inspect.
N° 06 · Recording Video · 38 min
Keynote · Industry 5.0 and the end of the platform era. A recent keynote on human-centred industry, delivered to a European manufacturing leadership summit.
N° 07 · Essay 9 min
The three mistakes of the first 100 days . On moving too quickly, moving too slowly, and — the worst — moving laterally when altitude was required.
N° 08 · Template .sheet
The 90/180/365-day plan. A simple planning sheet used with every Ysherpa client in the first week of engagement. Lightly opinionated.
N° 09 · Book Publisher · 2020
Leading in Digital Security. Yuri's 2020 volume on CISO leadership. Still a working reference used in the executive programmes at Antwerp Management School.
N° 10 · Framework PDF
Agile at the top: cadence without theatre. How to install an agile operating rhythm in an executive team without importing the vocabulary that makes boards roll their eyes.
N° 02 · The shelf
Books kept within arm's reach .
Volume · 01
Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance Bobbert et al.
Year · 2021
Volume · 02
Leading in Digital Security Volume · 03
Improving the Maturity of Business Information Security Volume · 04
Exploring Capabilities & Skills for Digital Value Creation Bobbert et al.
Year · 2018
Volume · 05
Cybersecurity in 60 Minutes Volume · 06
25 Years of Group Support Systems Contributed volume
Year · —
Volume · 07
CISO Handbook Volume · 08
Hoe veilig is mijn aandeel? Volume · 09
Maturing Business Information Security One letter a month. Only when worth sending. Monthly dispatch for executives on the ascent — one new field manual, one essay, one recommended read. No back-issues, no archives-for-sale.
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