Great Executives
Source-grounded pack with Executive Attention Audit, Executive Decision Review, and Legacy System Review, plus 3 more.
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Choose this pack when the work touches Great Executives and you need a bounded workflow with explicit inputs, a defined output, and human review gates.
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6 source-grounded skills. Load one workflow at a time.
Executive Attention Audit
Use this workflow when an executive calendar, meeting cadence, updates, or follow-through may be teaching the organization the wrong priorities and the leader needs to convert activity reporting into operating signal while removing accidental bottlenecks.
Output specification
Return an executive attention system with time_allocation, signals_sent, bottlenecks, forum_changes, status_to_signal_rewrites, protected_work, delegated_rights, and 30_day_review.
Executive Decision Review
Use this workflow when an executive must make or learn from a consequential judgment call by matching process to reversibility, consequence, and genuine urgency, documenting predictions before outcomes, and reviewing decision quality without confusing it with luck.
Output specification
Return an executive decision record with decision_and_owner, classification, evidence_and_unknowns, options_and_opposite_view, prediction_and_confidence, resource_and_trust_effects, decision, review_date, and outcome_learning.
Legacy System Review
Use this workflow when an executive must test whether meaning, decisions, relationships, operating cadence, and leadership capacity will survive organizational layers or the executive's departure, then close communication-fidelity, institutional-memory, redundancy, and succession gaps.
Output specification
Return an executive legacy system review with survival_inventory, communication_fidelity, artifact_and_channel_changes, succession_depth, institutional_memory, single_points_of_failure, absence_test, and remediation_plan.
Organizational Weather Map
Use this workflow when formal structure does not explain slow decisions, conflict, silence, duplicated work, or hidden vetoes and an executive needs to map decision rights, information flow, coordination forums, accountability, and informal influence before changing the organization.
Output specification
Return an organizational architecture and weather map with decisions_and_outcomes, formal_map, observed_map, evidence_quality, patterns, root_mechanism, intervention, political_and_people_impacts, and review_plan.
Strategic No Brief
Use this workflow when a proposed initiative, request, feature, partnership, or priority looks attractive but capacity is finite and an executive must expose the displaced commitment, quantify total cost, define kill criteria, and communicate a clear yes, no, or bounded test.
Output specification
Return a strategic no brief with request, evidence_and_assumptions, displaced_commitment, capacity_model, options, decision, reason, funding_or_substitution, success_and_kill_criteria, and communication.
Talent Calibration Loop
Use this workflow when an executive needs a current, evidence-based view of leadership performance, role fit, growth runway, succession risk, or a costly loyalty exception and must turn ongoing observation into timely, fair action without surprising people.
Output specification
Return an executive talent calibration with role_bar, evidence, ceiling_and_fit, development_gap, effects_on_others, loyalty_checks, action_and_support, feedback_plan, and succession_risk.
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.