TH-101
Decision Legibility™
Communication has Decision Legibility when the listener can identify what the message means, what decision or action follows, and the material reasoning behind it without reconstructing the message.
Canonical record
- ID
- TH-101
- Domain
- thinking
- Type
- measurement
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Status
- canonical
- Handbook
- Chapter 3.1
Related concepts
Schema-verified relationships
- TH-102 · Executive Lens™ — supports: The Executive Lens identifies the decision need that Decision Legibility must make visible.
- OR-201 · Governing Signal™ — enables: An early Governing Signal makes the governing answer easier to locate.
- OR-202 · Decision Impedance™ — reduces: Unnecessary processing effort lowers usable clarity.
- OR-202 · Decision Impedance™ — contrasts with: Decision Impedance describes the reconstruction effort that Decision Legibility reduces.
- DL-607 · Executive Influence™ — supports: Decision Legibility ensures stakeholders understand what the communication means and what decision or action follows.
- CM-307 · Executive Dialogue™ — supports: Decision Legibility keeps the exchange oriented toward the decision rather than allowing discussion to become unbounded.
- CM-306 · Explicit Executive Ask™ — supports: Decision Legibility makes the requested decision and resulting action identifiable without reconstruction.
- CM-303 · Strategic Opening™ — supports: Decision Legibility improves when the opening makes meaning decision and attention priority identifiable before detail.
- CM-301 · Recommendation Clarity™ — supports: A visible specific supported and actionable recommendation improves overall Decision Legibility.
- LR-501 · Recognition Moment™ — reinforces: Recognition makes the choices that support Decision Legibility observable and repeatable.
- PT-801 · Executive Status Update™ — uses: The Executive Status Update applies Decision Legibility to status, dependency, and action.
- AP-901 · Chronological Dump™ — contrasts with: Chronological Dump obscures the governing answer and increases reconstruction effort.
- TH-103 · Decision Confidence™ — supports: Calibrated claim strength makes the basis and limits of a conclusion easier to use.
- TH-104 · Decision Ownership — supports: Explicit ownership, commitments, and next steps improve usable Decision Legibility.
- TH-105 · Executive Intent™ — supports: A visible intended outcome improves the usability of meaning, decisions, and next actions.
- TH-106 · Materiality™ — supports: Material evidence improves Decision Legibility by preserving the information that can change the listener’s conclusion or action.
- TH-107 · Executive Judgment™ — supports: A visible judgment makes the decision and its material reasoning easier to understand and use.
- TH-108 · Strategic Relevance™ — supports: Strategic relevance makes decision-ready communication meaningful by connecting it to organizational outcomes.
- OR-203 · Pyramid Logic — supports: Conclusion-first hierarchy makes the answer and material reasoning easier to identify.
- OR-204 · Executive Flow™ — supports: Continuous logical progression makes meaning reasoning and action easier to identify and use.
- OR-205 · Information Hierarchy™ — supports: Decision-value hierarchy makes the primary idea and its supporting reasoning easier to identify.
- OR-207 · Narrative Compression™ — supports: Meaning-preserving compression reduces mental steps while keeping the decision and material reasoning visible.
- OR-208 · Executive Structure™ — supports: The integrated architecture makes meaning decision action and material reasoning usable without reconstruction.
Research references
Provenance
- Cognitive load theory
- Information foraging
- Decision-support communication