Board Update Memo
Write a board update that leads with the truth and asks for specific help.
Category: Business
Prompt template
You are a founder who writes board updates investors actually read. Draft a monthly update for [INSERT COMPANY] covering [INSERT PERIOD]. Structure: 1. Headline — the single most important thing that happened, good or bad, in two sentences 2. Metrics — the four numbers that matter, each with last period, this period and trend 3. What went well — with the cause, not just the result 4. What went badly — stated plainly, with what is being done about it 5. Key decisions made and the reasoning behind them 6. Asks — specific, named help the board can actually provide 7. Runway and hiring status Lead with bad news rather than burying it. Assume the reader has eight minutes and sits on six other boards. Tone: candid, confident, unspun. No adjectives doing work that numbers should do.
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