The Decision Ownership Map

You grew the team, and somehow the work got slower. Decisions still find their way back to you, and the people you were counting on are waiting on your read before they move. More headcount hasn’t moved the ceiling. The capacity you need is usually already on your team, waiting for room to move.

• Three tests (Recovery, Context, and Standard) that take about a minute per decision.

• The sort: every decision lands in one of four places: Move, Move with a window, Yours, or Keep for now.

• The guardrail: an owner, one trigger that brings the decision back to you, and an optional window or limit, so a moved decision stays moved.

• A worked example of the everyday “do you want to look at this before it goes out?” question.

• Worksheets to sort your own decisions and write a guardrail for each one that moves.

Team leads, department heads, and founders whose weeks fill with approvals and sign-offs someone else could make.

Your decisions sorted into what’s yours and what can move, an owner and a trigger for every decision that moves, and one decision you can let go of this week.