---
id: "action-ace-job-descriptions"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ 5. They build cultures that balance trust and accountability."]
tags: ["role-clarity", "culture", "organizational-design"]
related: ["concept-ace-documents", "concept-ownership-cultures"]
action: "Rewrite job descriptions to explicitly define Accountability, Collaboration, Empowerment, and decision authority."
outcome: "Removal of ambiguity, making company values tangible in day-to-day work."
sources: ["tail2"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail2"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-tail-121-best-pe-backed-ceos"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/what-the-best-private-equity-backed-ceos-do-differently"
sourceTitle: "What the Best Private Equity-Backed CEOs Do Differently"
---
# Deploy ACE Documents

**Action:** Translate abstract company values into job descriptions using the **ACE framework** (see [[concept-ace-documents]]). For **every role**, document:
- **exactly what the role owns** (Accountability),
- **how it must collaborate** (Collaboration),
- **where its decision authority sits** (Empowerment), and
- **how success is measured.**

**Outcome:** removal of ambiguity, making company values tangible in day-to-day work and building the [[concept-ownership-cultures]] that discipline #5 of [[framework-5x-ceo-disciplines]] targets. Reflects the principle that [[claim-culture-is-tolerated|culture is what leaders tolerate and structurally reinforce]].