Decision Drag Audit

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Decision Drag Audit

This is a 10-minute Decision Drag Audit for COOs, Chiefs of Staff, and senior operators in scaling companies (roughly 50–250 employees).

It pinpoints what’s actually slowing execution by classifying your organization into one of five Decision Drag patterns:

• Decision Backlog
• Trade-Off Fog
• Decision Rights Gap
• Meeting Drift
• Rework Spiral

After you submit, I personally review your responses and email you:

• your Decision Drag category
• the two fastest fixes to restore decision velocity

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Qualification

Q1: Your role (closest match): *

Chief Operating Officer / VP Operations

Chief of Staff

Founder / CEO

Executive leadership team member

Other (not typically responsible for decision architecture)

Q2: Company size (or team size if easier): *

under 25 employees

25–49 employees

50–100 employees

101–250 employees

250–500 employees

500+

Decision Backlog

Q3: How many leadership functions are involved in most major decisions?

2-3

4-5

6-7

Clear selection

Q4: How many “important decisions” are currently stuck (blocking work or revenue)?

0–1

2–3

4–6

7–10

11+

Q5: Age of the oldest stuck decision: *

Less than 7 days

1–2 weeks

3–4 weeks

1–2 months

3+ months

Q6: “We have a visible list of the decisions that are blocking work (not just tasks).” *

Never

Always

Trade-Off Clarity

Q7: “When we ask for a decision, the options and the trade-offs are written down in one place.”

Never

Always

Q8: What most often blocks a decision? *

We’re not clear on the constraint (time, money, risk, scope)

Too many stakeholders want different outcomes

The options aren’t real options, they’re drafts

The decision maker wants more certainty

We keep changing what “good” means

Q9: “We can name the real constraint in a sentence (example: ‘We can’t hire until Q3’).” *

Never

Always

Decision Rights

Q10: “It’s clear who decides what, and decisions don’t get reopened by surprise.”

Never

Always

Q11: When a decision gets made, how often does it recycle? *

Almost never

Sometimes (1–2 times)

Often (3–4 times)

Constantly (it keeps coming back)

Operating Cadence

Q12: “Our meetings produce decisions, not just updates.”

Never

Always

Q13: Where do decisions actually get finalized? *

In the meeting where it was raised

In a smaller follow-up with the decider

In Slack/email after the meeting

In escalation (founder/exec steps in)

They don’t get made, they fade out

Drift Signals

Q14: “Work gets redone because priorities or definitions change midstream.”

Never

Constantly

Q15: What decision is costing you the most right now? What is it blocking?
(2 to 4 sentences is enough)

Q16: If decisions moved 30% faster, what would improve first (revenue, delivery speed, morale, customer experience, quality, something else)?
(2 to 4 sentences is enough)

Q17: “We can implement changes to decision-making within 30 days if we agree on the fix.”

Yes

Q18: Roughly how much time does decision drag cost your leadership team each week? *

Less than 5 hours/week

5–10 hours/week

10–20 hours/week

20+ hours/week

Wrapping Up

Q19: If your audit shows high decision drag, are you open to a paid diagnostic Sprint to close the top blocker fast? *

Yes

Maybe

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(I’ll use this only to send your result and the two recommended fixes.) *

Yes, you can email me my Decision Drag Audit readout and any follow-up questions needed to interpret it.

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