Decision Quality Diagnostic: All you need to know

• A short written description of one decision, no longer than a page.
• Whatever you already have. Board papers, a decision memo, an email chain, or your own account of it.
• No preparation beyond that. No template to fill in. No homework.

It can be a decision you have already made, or one that is still ahead. Both are equally useful.

• Read the material ourselves. Senior-only, no junior staff.
• Reconstruct the decision as it was actually made, not as it was later told.
• Examine the frame, the alternatives that were genuinely live, the evidence that counted, and the conditions of commitment.
• Apply the decision-quality chain, the same architecture we use on institutional engagements.

• A short written note, typically two to three pages.
• A clear read on what the process got right, what it got wrong, and where the largest leverage sits.
• One or two specific recommendations for the next decision of similar scale.
• Delivered within a fixed window from receipt of the material.

The note is written for you, not for a file. It stays inside the engagement boundary.

• This is not a proposal for a longer engagement.
• It is not a workshop, and it is not a slide deck.
• We do not need access to your team, your systems, or your data beyond the material you choose to send.
• You decide whether anything follows. There is no obligation beyond the note itself.