Can we close the AOP by the December board meeting?
Decision window2d 14h 00m left
2Your response
How are you responding?
Ours to answerWe’re the right party to answer. Give a position on the question and, optionally, what it depends on.
Blocked by dependenciesOurs, but we can’t commit a position until an upstream party resolves. Name what’s blocking it.
Not ours to answerAnother party owns this. Nominate who should answer — they’ll be asked to accept.
Conflicts with a wider strategyYou’re disputing the premise, not answering — this question pulls against a wider strategic objective. Routes to leadership, apart from your answer. (To answer and flag a tension, use a make-or-break dependency instead.)
Ours to answer
Your position on this question
Why? optional
What’s blocking this answer?No position is committed while blocked — that’s the signal. You’re naming the upstream party the answer waits on.
Who specifically?
This routes onward to them as a question.
Who should answer this instead?Nominate, don’t assert — the party you name is asked to accept, never silently saddled.
Who specifically?
We’ll ask them to accept. If they decline, it routes on.
Which wider strategy does this conflict with?You’re disputing the premise, not answering. No position is given — this routes to leadership as a premise challenge, handled apart from dependencies.
Routes to leadership as a premise challenge — handled apart from your answer and its dependencies.
3What it depends onoptional
Anything important this answer depends on?
Sorting what you said into dependencies…
These arrive as suggested — review each to set importance and fix anything I got wrong.
Dependency #1
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Dependency Importance— how much does it matter?edit
How much does this dependency matter to your answer?
Make-or-break
Helps
2
Dependency Ownership— who owns it?edit
Who can take action on this dependency?
A team
Control function
Finance, Legal, Security
A committee
exec staff, the board
A person
Customer
3rd party
Named, not here
rests on them — won't act
No owner
Which one? optional
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Dependency Requirement—edit
What do you need from the owner of this dependency?