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Highest-Value Contribution.

Name the handful of things that are genuinely yours, the few things only you can do or do uniquely well, so your redesigned role has a clear target.

This is usually a small set: vision and strategy, key relationships, critical decisions, the places where your judgment is irreplaceable. Everything outside it is a candidate to move. Answers stay in your browser.

My highest-value contribution

Why only I should do it

Test: if your list is long, it is not yet your highest-value contribution. Press for the few things where your judgment is truly irreplaceable.

Commit to and protect the target role (Step 5)

The role I am moving toward, mostly my highest-value contribution

How I will protect it when things get busy and I feel the pull back into the weeds

If you cannot name it

If your highest-value work is unclear because the strategy of the business itself is unclear, set the direction first in the strategic planning work, then come back and define your role within it.

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Steps 2 and 5 of the guide. Back to the guide, or start over.