Your teams don't have an execution problem. They have an alignment problem.
Get the bookEvery organization has a Decision Stack — the chain of decisions that connects your vision and mission, through your strategy, objectives, and actions, all the way down to the principles that guide how your teams work every day. When those decisions connect, people move fast, make good calls without escalating, and the whole organization builds momentum. When they don't, you get the pattern every leader recognizes: smart people, hard work, and no shared context. Teams pulling in different directions. Priorities that shift every quarter. The same debates relitigated in every meeting. And a growing sense that you're busy — but not actually moving.
Lenny Rachitsky, Founder of Lenny's Newsletter
"There are a lot of books about strategy and a lot of books about execution. Very few show you how to connect the two. The Decision Stack fills that gap and shows how that connection enables teams to move faster without losing direction."
Stephanie Leue, CPO Ringier
“The Decision Stack brilliantly connects high-level strategy to day-to-day execution. This book is a must-read for navigating the inherent messiness of modern business - not just for product leaders, but for anyone outside product who is eager to truly optimize for velocity.”
Pari Singh, CEO and Founder of Flow
"I started my career designing rocket engines. The hardest problems were never technical — teams fail because they lack shared context. The Decision Stack is the clearest framework I've seen for creating that context — from vision all the way down to the decisions your teams make every day."
Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance
"The company stack is changing fast, and The Decision Stack outlines how we capture the momentum and make our ideas happen better and faster than ever before."
Petra Wille, Author of Strong Product People
"The Decision Stack is the fastest way I know to create clarity where there's confusion. This is an essential book for anyone who wants their teams to make better decisions, faster."
Rich Mironov, smokejumper CPO and author of Money Stories
"Organizations struggle with "how" to operationalize strategic intent and "why" particular activities will help achieve intended outcomes. This book is for anyone who needs more clarity, and we all need more clarity."
Most organizations try to fix this by adding more. More OKRs. More alignment meetings. More strategy documents. More frameworks. But more isn't the answer. You can't communicate your way out of a broken stack. You can't add enough objectives to compensate for an unclear strategy. And you can't hold enough alignment meetings when people fundamentally disagree on where you're going.
The Decision Stack is a mental model — not another framework — for diagnosing where your strategic alignment is broken and fixing the connections that matter. It won't ask you to tear everything down and start over. You already have most of the pieces. The problem is that they don't connect.
In this book, Martin Eriksson shows you how to build a coherent Decision Stack: from a vision that actually drives decisions, through a strategy that makes real choices, to objectives that focus your teams, opportunities that map the problem space, and principles that push decision-making to the edges of your organization. The result is the kind of strategic alignment that unlocks organizational momentum — where your teams move faster, together, and on the things that actually matter.