Definition
Level setting
Establishing a shared baseline of understanding across a cohort before training begins.
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Key person riskBusiness fragility created when critical knowledge or workflows live in one person's head.Knowing Your Business ColdWhen a founder's knowledge has moved from intellectual recall to intuitive mastery — no hesitation, no surprise at any question, answers emerge the way a craftsman talks about their trade.KodawariThe Japanese concept of pursuing excellence in a craft for its own sake, without requiring external recognition.Learning AgilityA founder quality that describes the ability to take in new information, update beliefs, and adapt strategy without losing core conviction about the problem being solved.LoopingMediation technique of repeating back what a party said, neutrally, so they know they've been heard.Love languagesA popular framework for how people give and receive affection.MediationA structured conversation, guided by a neutral third party, where the people in a dispute build their own agreement.MetacognitionThe deliberate practice of thinking about how you're thinking: what cognitive work to keep in your brain, what to outsource to AI, and — crucially — what questions are even worth asking. In an AI-native workflow, metacognition is the foundational skill. When you can get an answer to any question in two seconds, the scarce capability isn't answering; it's knowing which questions to ask and which thinking to preserve as a human function. Most company AI training covers prompting; almost none covers metacognition.