---
id: "action-create-role-scorecards"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Founder’s New Role"]
tags: ["role-design", "accountability"]
related: ["concept-role-scorecards", "question-enforcing-boundaries"]
action: "Draft role scorecards detailing specific business outcomes owned by the founder versus the successor."
outcome: "Clarifies boundaries and prevents the founder's new role from becoming hollow or undermining."
speakers: ["Samantha Hellauer", "Sanja Kos", "Julie Vermoote", "Sapna Sadarangani Werner", "BJ Wright"]
sources: ["tail2"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-tail2"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-tail-122-leading-after-founder"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/leading-after-the-founder"
sourceTitle: "Leading After the Founder"
---
# Create role scorecards for founder and successor

**Action:** Develop explicit [[concept-role-scorecards]] that spell out exactly who is responsible for which business outcomes. Supplement the scorecards with structured conversations about influence and authority, regular check-in cycles, and a network of trusted intermediaries to recalibrate as roles inevitably overlap in practice.

**Outcome:** Clarifies boundaries and prevents the founder's new role from becoming hollow or a vehicle for undermining the new CEO. **Open gap:** the article does not provide a scalable way to *enforce* the scorecard before conflict escalates — see [[question-enforcing-boundaries]].