Look at the evidence
Trace a recent piece of work across teams.
Mark informal founder interventions between formal steps.
Ask what input or authority each intervention supplied.
A case to think through
A project passes all documented checks but still waits for a founder's message because nobody owns the final cross-team trade-off.
This is a hypothetical operating example, not a client result.Avoid a misleading conclusion
Adding more process documents may miss the hidden decisions that make the process function.
Decision independence combines a named owner with usable authority, relevant information and appropriate escalation. Look at ordinary cases as well as exceptions. Formal restrictions may be entirely appropriate; the question is whether the route is deliberate and workable rather than an invisible queue for the founder.
Your evidence check
Bring supporting and contrary examples. A self-reported answer is a starting point; these notes do not calculate or validate a score.
| Prompt | Notes from your case |
|---|---|
| Process step | |
| informal intervention | |
| decision supplied | |
| alternative owner |
Are informal decisions always bad?
No. The issue is whether material recurring decisions depend on inaccessible authority or knowledge with no deliberate backup.
See the wider pattern.
20 questions. An indicative, self-reported result with a five-dimension profile and an optional conversation.
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