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R&D management expertise for R&D portfolio management, technology roadmapping, research methodology, patent strategy, lab management, academic partnerships, and regulatory pathways. Use when managing research programs, planning technology roadmaps, or building patent portfolios.
Your startup isn't just your team - it's an ecosystem of people who have a stake in your success. Investors, board members, advisors, partners, vendors. Each group has different needs, different communication rhythms, and different expectations. Get it wrong, and you lose credibility. Get it right, and you have an army of advocates multiplying your reach. This skill covers investor updates, board communications, partner management, advisor engagement, and vendor relationships. It's about building trust through consistent, thoughtful communication that treats stakeholders as partners in your mission, not just audiences to manage. Use when "stakeholder, investor update, board meeting, board deck, advisor, partner, vendor, monthly update, quarterly update, keep stakeholders informed, investor relations, stakeholder, investor, board, advisor, partner, vendor, updates, communications, relationship, engagement" mentioned.
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Recommend the next roadmap-backed change, then after explicit confirmation scaffold it as a normal spec-driven change.
Use historical analogies to inform strategic decisions by identifying structural similarities and differences between past and present situations. Use this skill when the user draws on historical precedent to justify a strategy, needs to evaluate whether a historical comparison is valid, or wants to learn from past events — even if they say 'this is like the dotcom bubble', 'history repeats itself', or 'what can we learn from how X handled this'.
Apply principled negotiation using BATNA, ZOPA, and the Harvard method to prepare for and conduct negotiations. Use this skill when the user needs to prepare for a negotiation, evaluate their bargaining position, design win-win solutions, or handle difficult negotiation situations — even if they say 'how do I negotiate this deal', 'what's my leverage', 'they won't budge on price', or 'help me prepare for this meeting'.
Apply Upper Echelons Theory (Hambrick and Mason, 1984) to analyze how top management team characteristics — demographics, experiences, values — shape strategic choices and organizational outcomes. Use this skill when the user needs to evaluate TMT composition effects on strategy, predict strategic direction from leadership profiles, assess whether managerial discretion enables or constrains executive influence, or when they ask 'does leadership background matter for strategy', 'how does TMT composition affect decisions', or 'why did this management team make that choice'.
Apply structured decision analysis using decision matrices, decision trees, expected value, and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Use this skill when the user faces a complex decision with multiple options and criteria, needs to compare alternatives objectively, quantify risk vs reward, or facilitate group decisions — even if they say 'which option should we choose', 'help me decide', 'how do we compare these options', or 'what's the expected outcome'.
Apply Transaction Cost Economics (Williamson, 1975, 1985) to analyze governance structure choices — market, hybrid, or hierarchy — based on transaction characteristics. Use this skill when the user needs to decide make-or-buy, evaluate outsourcing vs vertical integration, design governance mechanisms for inter-firm relationships, or when they ask 'should we build this in-house or outsource', 'why do firms vertically integrate', or 'how should we structure this partnership'.
Apply Agency Theory (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) to diagnose principal-agent problems — moral hazard, adverse selection — and design governance mechanisms to align interests. Use this skill when the user needs to analyze conflicts of interest between owners and managers, design incentive or monitoring structures, evaluate corporate governance effectiveness, or when they ask 'how do we ensure managers act in shareholders interest', 'why is this incentive plan failing', or 'what governance mechanisms reduce agency costs'.
Use when you need the Jira CLI (`jira`) to verify installation, configure Jira Cloud access, list issues (all or by JQL) as markdown tables, and fetch issue descriptions and comments for analysis. Uses an interactive install gate - if `jira` is missing, ask whether to show installation guidance before any issue commands. Part of the skills-for-java project