Decision Rights Before Alignment
Identify the decision owner, recommenders, input givers, approvers, and performers before a senior decision meeting.
Decision rights are a design choice, not a personality issue. When senior meetings drift, people often blame poor facilitation or politics. Usually the deeper issue is that the group has not separated contribution from authority. RAPID makes that separation visible. The trap A room full of senior people can feel like alignment while everyone quietly preserves optionality. The phrase “we all agreed” is weak unless someone owns the decision, someone owns execution, and everyone knows whether their input was advisory or binding. The senior-management test For any decision above one function, ask: who recommends, who must agree because they carry…
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