Reading the seat, not the claim
Terms get argued with what a person claims to be, and then delivered out of the seat that person actually holds. I read one arrangement by its claim for years, and not because the claim convinced me: it was holding
Three seats, one business
A business driven by one founder has to contain technician work, manager work and founder work somewhere, in some degree, or it cannot grow past that founder's own hands. Nobody notices which seat is running empty until the empty one
The agreement nobody stated
A covert contract is an agreement about what is owed that nobody ever stated. It is built from what was given, not from what was said, and it can be broken only because it was never spoken. Organisational psychology has