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Leadership clarity checklist
A practical checklist to reset priorities and decision ownership.
- Find the real bottleneck (signal > opinions).
- See where decisions break (rights / escalation).
- Leave with 1 agreement to run this week.
Operator toolkits
Each resource is intentionally short — designed to produce clarity you can act on immediately.
Pick a fast path
Choose the path that matches your constraint. Keep it tight: one tool, one agreement, one week.
Need clarity fast
Use the checklist to find the highest-cost friction and stop opinion wars.
Alignment is drifting
Use the canvas to put scope, ownership, and interfaces back on one page.
Roles / strengths are messy
Use the guide to translate strengths → responsibilities, decision rights, and expectations.
Turn signal into agreements
The resource is only half the job. The other half: convert the output into a small agreement that holds under pressure.
Name the biggest execution drag (decision latency, handoffs, meeting drift, role ambiguity). Avoid opinion wars.
- One sentence, not ten.
- Anchor it in observable friction.
Open the resource that matches your constraint and extract only the highest-signal output. Keep it short.
- 3–5 bullets max.
- Prefer signal to narrative.
Convert the output into an operating agreement: who decides, how a handoff works, what “done” means, or how a meeting runs.
- One agreement > ten intentions.
- Owner + scope + exception path.
Test the agreement for one week. Track one lightweight signal (mini-scoreboard). Then adjust.
- 1–2 metrics (rework, escalations, cycle time).
- Keep what holds; discard what doesn’t.
How these are written
Goal: produce actionable signal. Short formats to clarify decisions, responsibilities, and cadence.