{
  "docId": "019f6b8e-d95a-702d-88cd-b743c11cc5e1",
  "docSlug": "jarvis-11-laws-of-showrunning-nice-version",
  "documentTitle": "11 laws of showrunning nice version",
  "authorId": "11-laws-of-showrunning-nice-version",
  "authorName": null,
  "documentKindSlug": "deck",
  "documentKindLabel": "Deck",
  "sourceTypeSlug": "investor_relations",
  "sourceTypeLabel": "Investor relations",
  "presentationDate": null,
  "orientation": null,
  "aspectRatio": null,
  "pageNumber": 7,
  "pageCount": 25,
  "prevPage": 6,
  "nextPage": 8,
  "slideType": "key_messages",
  "function": "summarize",
  "density": "overcrowded",
  "nDataPoints": 0,
  "notes": "The slide uses a 'law' framework to present professional advice for showrunners.",
  "elementsJson": null,
  "metadataConfidence": 0.95,
  "imagePath": null,
  "slideHref": "/slides/019f6b8e-d95a-702d-88cd-b743c11cc5e1/7",
  "deckHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-d95a-702d-88cd-b743c11cc5e1",
  "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-d95a-702d-88cd-b743c11cc5e1.json",
  "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019f6b8e-d95a-702d-88cd-b743c11cc5e1#slide-7",
  "components": [
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.02,
        "w": 0.1,
        "x": 0.8,
        "y": 0.94
      },
      "kind": "other",
      "text": "Page 7 of 25",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "source-note",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "827657ee-403d-4100-b955-7555af191f3b",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.08,
        "w": 0.8,
        "x": 0.1,
        "y": 0.17
      },
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "text": "As the days, weeks, and months churn away, you will find that - whether you like it or not, and whether it's in your comfort zone or not - everyone constantly solicits decisions from you. Remember the First Law.",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "paragraph",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "0ba660be-b4aa-4755-a4de-45d4237301ff",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.08,
        "w": 0.8,
        "x": 0.1,
        "y": 0.71
      },
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "text": "Your job is to make ideas come to life. The first step is to commit. Commit early. Commit often. Make committing the same as breathing: you might as well do it now, because you will have to do it eventually.",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "paragraph",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "0cff7aff-0206-4e72-8ebc-f480cb26e3bc",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.12,
        "w": 0.8,
        "x": 0.1,
        "y": 0.58
      },
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "text": "Avoiding decisions causes your staff to run themselves ragged coming up with contingencies and robs them of the time they need to properly execute your vision. There's also the sad - and very frustrating and demoralizing to your employees - truth that most decision-averse managers usually return to one of the first things they were pitched as their final answer.",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "paragraph",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "8e285b89-5b16-4efd-9d90-96eeb097c49d",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.18,
        "w": 0.8,
        "x": 0.1,
        "y": 0.26
      },
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "text": "And yet, an aversion to making decisions is a massively common showrunning dysfunction. It comes out of an understandable insecurity: once you make a decision, the world knows where you stand. Once you say \"This is what this is,\" you have made your taste and opinion clear: the world will judge you. Decision aversion can also be a stalling tactic designed to let you have it your way without ruffling too many feathers on an interpersonal and creative level. Wanting to be seen as \"a nice person\" and a \"good employer\" are understandable desires.",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "paragraph",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "9777d8fa-bba6-4a25-b1cc-5cbea8e8e426",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.12,
        "w": 0.8,
        "x": 0.1,
        "y": 0.45
      },
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "text": "While \"nice\" can mean \"affable\" and \"pleasant,\" a second definition of \"nice\" is also \"precise and demanding careful attention.\" In my experience, nice people - and good bosses - rip off the Band-Aid early, make the case for their decision, hear out any remaining arguments, then shut down the discussion and send everyone off to get on with their work.",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "paragraph",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "cedcd330-3217-4a88-93aa-01b6baea10cd",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.12,
        "w": 0.8,
        "x": 0.1,
        "y": 0.8
      },
      "kind": "paragraph",
      "text": "Most importantly, the sooner you make a decision, the sooner you will know from your crew what is achievable, and the sooner they will be able to expand upon - and use their talents to - elevate it. The time you spent not deciding is time you rob from your staff's ability to make whatever the object of the decision the best it can be. The show simply cannot go on until you say what the show is.",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "paragraph",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "d8c3430a-1365-4ee9-afed-5eda35e9a02c",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    },
    {
      "bbox": {
        "h": 0.05,
        "w": 0.5,
        "x": 0.25,
        "y": 0.09
      },
      "kind": "title",
      "text": "THE FOURTH LAW OF SHOWRUNNING\nMAKE DECISIONS EARLY AND OFTEN",
      "attrs": null,
      "subkind": "headline",
      "toolName": null,
      "toolSlug": null,
      "confidence": null,
      "componentId": "045d21c4-e643-487e-8889-89874ea1c2b3",
      "frameworkName": null,
      "frameworkSlug": null
    }
  ],
  "metrics": [],
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "Action Titles",
      "slug": "action-titles",
      "agent": "Architect",
      "layer": "slide",
      "matchId": "0c25543b-ac2f-42dc-a65d-243e1654bd2f",
      "evidence": "THE THIRD LAW OF SHOWRUNNING: ALWAYS DESCRIBE A PATH TO SUCCESS",
      "confidence": 0.9
    }
  ],
  "frameworks": [],
  "arcBeats": [
    {
      "to": 21,
      "from": 4,
      "beatId": "da4c228f-5699-4710-a650-b0ac460707b7",
      "arcName": "Monroe's Motivated Sequence",
      "arcSlug": "monroes-sequence",
      "beatName": "Satisfaction",
      "beatSlug": "monroes-sequence-satisfaction",
      "evidence": "The presentation of the 11 laws satisfies the need established earlier.",
      "position": 2,
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "parentBeatName": "Turn",
      "parentBeatSlug": "turn"
    }
  ],
  "loops": [],
  "imagePathAlt": null,
  "thumbSrc": null,
  "thumbSrcAlt": null,
  "locked": true
}