The research archive

More evidence for executive operating questions.

Page 12 of 13. Bounded research on decision flow, calendar protection, board cycles, and the work behind leadership support.

Research notes and operating data for an executive support review
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People operations

Executive support for people leaders research

A research backed view of executive support for people leaders managing hiring, sensitive calendars, leadership rituals, documents, and follow up.

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Remote operations

Executive support for remote leadership research

How executive support helps remote leadership teams preserve context, meeting quality, decisions, documents, and handoffs.

Executive support handoff documentation research research illustration

Documentation systems

Executive support handoff documentation research

How executive teams can use handoff documentation to reduce single points of failure across calendars, inboxes, meetings, travel, and access.

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Capacity planning

Executive assistant workload planning research

A cited approach to sizing executive assistant workload across calendars, inboxes, meetings, travel, and confidential work.

Executive support for product leaders research research illustration

Product operations

Executive support for product leaders research

A research backed view of how executive support helps product leaders manage reviews, decisions, documents, stakeholder meetings, and follow up.

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Revenue operations

Executive support for sales leaders research

How executive support can help sales leaders manage customer meetings, pipeline reviews, travel, hiring loops, and follow up discipline.

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Quality systems

Executive support quality audit research

A cited checklist for auditing executive support quality across calendars, inboxes, meetings, documents, confidentiality, and follow up.

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Productivity economics

Executive support return on investment research

How to evaluate executive support using time recovery, decision speed, meeting quality, and coordination reliability.

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Confidential operations

Executive support risk management research

How executive support teams can reduce risk around access, documents, calendars, stakeholder communication, and follow up.

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Leadership operations

Executive support service level research

A cited framework for setting response windows, escalation rules, and service levels for executive support work.

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Systems

Executive support tool stack research

A practical research article on choosing tools for calendars, inboxes, documents, project tracking, meeting notes, and AI assisted workflows.

Founder calendar prioritization research research illustration

Founder operations

Founder calendar prioritization research

How executive support can help founders protect decision time while keeping investors, customers, hiring, and team operating work moving.

Leadership offsite support research research illustration

Leadership operations

Leadership offsite support research

A cited article on executive support for leadership offsites, including agendas, pre reads, logistics, decision records, and follow up.

Board cadence executive support research research illustration

Board support

Board cadence executive support research

A cited article on using executive support to keep board calendars, packet deadlines, pre reads, approvals, and follow ups reliable.

Confidential executive support research research illustration

Risk and access

Confidential executive support research

How to design executive support around confidential calendars, sensitive documents, private correspondence, and escalation rules.

Executive assistant onboarding research for leadership teams research illustration

Hiring operations

Executive assistant onboarding research for leadership teams

A cited framework for onboarding executive assistants into calendars, inboxes, documents, meetings, and decision routines.

Executive assistant retention research research illustration

Hiring cost data

Executive assistant retention research

How role clarity, executive access, workload design, and feedback loops affect retention for executive assistants and leadership support roles.

Executive delegation system research research illustration

Executive productivity

Executive delegation system research

A research backed way to decide what executives should delegate to assistants, coordinators, and chief of staff support.

Executive meeting notes research research illustration

Leadership operations

Executive meeting notes research

How executive assistants and coordinators can turn meeting notes into decisions, owners, deadlines, and reusable operating memory.

Executive stakeholder management support research research illustration

Executive productivity

Executive stakeholder management support research

A cited framework for using executive support to manage stakeholder communication, follow ups, briefing notes, and escalation paths.

Remote executive handoff research research illustration

Remote support

Remote executive handoff research

A cited framework for handoffs between executives, assistants, coordinators, and remote support teams.

Scaling an executive support team research research illustration

Leadership operations

Scaling an executive support team research

A cited model for moving from one assistant to a coordinated executive support team across leadership operations.

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Founder operations

Startup executive support research

How startups can decide when founder operations, executive assistant support, or chief of staff support should be added.

AI and executive assistant workflows research research illustration

Executive productivity

AI and executive assistant workflows research

A cited article on where AI can help executive assistants and where human judgment, confidentiality, and operating context still matter.