A short book by Will Simpson

Riding the Fence

The decision gets made for you.

Every leader I have worked with has sat on a fence at some point. Middle managers do it. Founders do it. I have done it. And every time, the decision got made anyway, by a deadline, a board member, or a competitor who stopped waiting.

This short book is about getting off the fence before that happens. It comes from twenty years in the operating chair and twelve years at a poker table, and it reads in under thirty minutes.

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The cover of Riding the Fence by Will Simpson

What is inside

  1. 1 The Fence Is a Decision
  2. 2 What a Maybe Costs
  3. 3 Hell Yes, or It Is a No
  4. 4 Folding Is Not Losing
  5. 5 No Is How You Say Yes
  6. 6 The Friendly Neighborhood Wet Blanket
  7. 7 Run the Test on This Week

It ends with the Operational Checkup and a page that turns your three lowest scores into decisions you make this week.