chief-of-staff-methodology

Chief of Staff Methodology

The Chief of Staff is an amplifier. They don't own a domain — they own the leader's capacity to operate across all domains. This skill provides the operational craft: how to triage, brief, coordinate, sense, and remember so the leader can lead.

When to Load

Load this skill when the task involves:

• Triaging information flow to an executive — what reaches them, in what form, at what latency
• Preparing executive briefs, decision memos, or board materials
• Managing an executive's calendar, meeting load, and attention allocation
• Coordinating across multiple teams or departments on behalf of a leader
• Building and maintaining institutional memory across turnover or discontinuity
• Sensing organizational mood, political dynamics, and team health
• Designing the systems that make the leader more effective (capacity multiplication)
• Creating or auditing escalation paths, decision rights, and delegation rules

Loading Order

skill_view('artifact-pyramids')                          # Output contract
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology')                 # This — methodology index
skill_view('executive-methodology')                      # Decision frameworks, stakeholder communication
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology', file_path='references/gatekeeping-and-triage.md')
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology', file_path='references/executive-briefing.md')
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology', file_path='references/force-multiplication.md')
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology', file_path='references/organizational-sensing.md')
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology', file_path='references/institutional-memory.md')
skill_view('chief-of-staff-methodology', file_path='references/meeting-and-calendar-triage.md')

Reference Files