People Task
Set decision rights for one founder decision
Assign the driver and one final approver, then list the contributors, informed people, and escalation route for one decision.
“This is costing me decision time and weakens trust in agreed founder responsibilities.”
The result you need
Make one decision through agreed process roles and record the outcome.
What is happening now
Where the work gets stuck
Founders overlap on a decision or repeatedly override one another.
- When it starts
- A named decision stalls, changes without closure, or crosses an agreed role boundary.
- What makes it difficult
- Informal authority creates bottlenecks and conflict while nobody can state who decides.
- What progress looks like
- The team records the decision, roles, factors, outcome, actions, and an escalation route accepted by authorised people.
What to try next
Map one founder decision with DACI roles
Clarify process roles and escalation for one decision without changing formal authority.
Before you act
Check these limits
- Strategy supplies the decision question and options; Operations executes the recorded outcome.
- Check company authority, board rights, ownership, and legal duties outside the role matrix.
- Do not use the method to resolve coercion, harassment, ownership disputes, or deadlock.
- Use independent professional help where the conflict makes direct work unsafe.
Sources
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