skills/make-executive-decisions/SKILL.md

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name: make-executive-decisions
description: Prepare difficult executive decisions with clear framing, criteria, evidence, options, scenarios, tradeoffs, reversibility, pre-mortem, recommendation, and review triggers. Use for strategic choices, prioritization, investments, make-or-buy, launches, hiring plans, or competing proposals.
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# Make Executive Decisions
1. State the decision, owner, deadline, objective, non-goals, constraints, and consequences of delay.
2. Separate facts, assumptions, preferences, and unknowns; research decision-critical unstable facts.
3. Generate real alternatives including defer, pilot, and do-nothing; define weighted criteria before scoring.
4. Analyze base, upside, downside, second-order effects, reversibility, option value, and pre-mortem failures.
5. Test sensitivity to uncertain assumptions and stakeholder incentives.
6. Return decision memo, options table, recommendation, dissent, confidence, conditions, action plan, and review triggers.