Decision Making and Systems Thinking
Source-grounded pack with Constraint Finder, Decision Type Classifier, and Incentive Behavior Review, plus 1 more.
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Open the pack, choose a workflow, and follow its setup and input instructions. You can also open each workflow below.
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Choose this pack when the work touches Decision Making and Systems Thinking and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.
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4 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.
Constraint Finder
Use this workflow when teams improve local efficiency but system throughput or outcomes do not move and the real bottleneck, queue, dependency, scarce authority, or capacity constraint must be identified, protected, exploited, elevated, and rechecked.
Output specification
Return a constraint diagnosis with system_outcome_and_boundary, flow_and_queues, constraint_evidence, local_optima, protect_and_exploit, elevation_options, throughput_measures, and recheck_rule.
Decision Type Classifier
Use this workflow when a decision queue needs calibrated speed, ownership, evidence, optionality, group-input design, and a written reasoning/review record based on reversibility, downside, uncertainty, urgency, and need for execution buy-in.
Output specification
Return a decision classification record with decision_and_owner, reversibility_and_consequence, evidence_and_uncertainty, optionality_and_staging, input_method, group_safeguards, reasoning_record, and review_and_reversal.
Incentive Behavior Review
Use this workflow when a team hits its metric while customer or company outcomes deteriorate and actual compensation, promotion, recognition, targets, access, blame, or downside ownership must be traced from rewarded behavior to system-level consequences and accountability gaps.
Output specification
Return an incentive behavior review with stated_vs_actual_rewards, behavior_chain, system_consequences, proxy_and_local_optimum, accountability_gap, redesign_options, guardrails, and pilot_review.
Second-Order Effects Scan
Use this workflow when a recurring problem or major decision requires mapping first-, second-, and third-order consequences, stocks, flows, delays, reinforcing and balancing feedback loops, leverage points, and a bounded act-measure-update intervention.
Output specification
Return a system effects scan with system_boundary, consequence_chains, stocks_flows_and_delays, feedback_loops, leverage_points, bounded_intervention, measures_and_guardrails, and update_rule.
Keep consequential decisions explicit.
These workflows structure analysis and artifacts; they do not authorize autonomous external, personnel, financial, legal, security, or other high-impact action.