Build Your Management Second Brain: The AI That Gets Smarter As You Lead
Dave Kline
Founder, MGMT (fmr COO @ Bridgewater)
Marsden Kline
Founder, MGMT (prev @ Google, Goldman)
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An executive's Chief of Staff keeps them sharp. Build yours in Claude Cowork.
We are expected to be compounding with AI.
Most are struggling to keep up.
Your peers are talking about AI. Your team is using it. Your org expects you to have a point of view on it. But the firehose of tools, prompts, and frameworks is impossible to keep up with. And most of what gets shared online doesn't translate into something you can use on Monday morning.
What's missing isn't another tool. It's a system.
In this 3.5-hour workshop, you'll build a Management Second Brain: a personal AI that knows your team, your decisions, and your leadership patterns. And gets smarter every time you use it.
You'll also build your management playbook: reusable frameworks for the situations you face repeatedly. Combine expert systems (EOS, OKRs, MGMT Accelerator, McKinsey 7-S) with your own hard-won lessons. Your AI references this playbook every time it coaches you, preps your meetings, or helps you make a decision.
This isn't a lecture. It's a build session.
Bring your laptop, access to Claude Cowork, and your messy notes.
Leave with a working management second brain.
What you’ll learn
Workshop agenda
🧠 The Management Amnesia Problem + Building Your Brain's Architecture
Why your best management lessons decay. Then: build your 5-folder Second Brain structure and populate it with real data about your team, decisions, and organizational context.
🤖 Use AI to Maintain Your Brain (Your Playbook + the Maintenance Engine)
Build your management playbook: reusable plays from your own experience, plus proven frameworks from experts. Set up the maintenance engine that keeps your brain current after every 1:1 and decision.
🔮 Querying Your Brain: Your Brain On Demand and On Schedule
Query your brain when you need it: coaching prep, decision support, self-assessment. Schedule it to deliver what you need before you need it: briefs, meeting prep, weekly digests. Ask and automate.
📈 The Compound Effect + Your Weekly Ritual
See what your brain looks like at Week 4, 12, and 26. Build your 20-minute Friday ritual. And discover the one folder that determines how powerful your entire system becomes.
Q&A + What Comes Next
Open Q&A. Then I'll show you my own Second Brain, built on 25 years of management experience and 100+ playbook entries. See what yours could become and the fastest way to get there.
Learn directly from Dave & Marsden
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Dave Kline
Founder of MGMT Accelerator (prev: Bridgewater, Moody's, PwC)
Marsden Kline
Founder of MGMT Accelerator (prev: Google, Goldman Sachs, Compass)
Who this workshop is for
Managers with 3+ reports who are overscheduled and underprepared. You know you could show up better if you had more time. Or better help.
Leaders who know AI can do more than write emails but never make the time to figure out what. You want a system, not another tool to try.
Experienced managers who are keeping up but not leveling up. You're tired of solving the same problems and ready to start compounding.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Dave Kline & Marsden Kline in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Complete Template Pack
Every file template, prompt, and workflow from the workshop, ready to copy-paste into your AI tool of choice. Includes the 5-folder architecture, team intelligence file template, all 4 maintenance prompts, all 5 query modes, and the Weekly Ritual checklist.
Platform-Specific Setup Guides
Step-by-step instructions for building your Second Brain on Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. We teach on Claude Cowork, but everything transfers. Use whatever your company provides. The system design is platform-agnostic; the files are just markdown.
Monthly Playbook Drops
After the workshop, you'll receive a monthly management playbook entry: a proven framework you can paste directly into your Second Brain's /playbook/ folder. Each one makes your coaching prep sharper, your decisions stronger, and your self-coaching queries more incisive. Free, ongoing.
A Working System, Not Slides
This is a build session, not a lecture. You'll leave with a populated, tested Management Second Brain containing real data about your team, your decisions, and your context, plus the prompts that keep it alive. Bring your laptop, your messy notes, and 25 minutes of pre-work. You'll use that afternoon.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals. Share prompts that work, playbook entries you've written, and Weekly Digest discoveries. The community keeps your brain alive after the workshop ends.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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