Find the single sub-domain most holding back the others, so your work fixes the cause rather than a symptom.
The five sub-domains sit in a dependency order. Upstream weakness constrains everything downstream, so it gets fixed first.
| Order | Sub-domain | Why it sits here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 (most upstream) | Leadership alignment | Unaligned leaders undermine everything below them; nothing holds if the top pulls apart. |
| 2 | Decision rights | Aligned leaders still stall if authority is unclear; decisions must be distributable. |
| 3 | Delegation and empowerment | Depends on clear decision rights; you cannot hand ownership where authority is undefined. |
| 4 | Leadership capability | You distribute decisions and work to people who must be capable of holding them. |
| 5 | Communication and cadence | Sustains the running system; meaningful only once there is alignment and structure to sustain. |
Your binding constraint is the lowest-scoring sub-domain that sits highest in this dependency order. A Level 2 in alignment outranks a Level 2 in cadence, because alignment is upstream. If two are tied on score, the one higher in the order is the constraint.
| Sub-domain | Your level (1-5) | Dependency order |
|---|---|---|
| Leadership alignment | 1 | |
| Decision rights | 2 | |
| Delegation and empowerment | 3 | |
| Leadership capability | 4 | |
| Communication and cadence | 5 |
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