CM-301
Recommendation Clarity™
Recommendation Clarity™ is the explicit communication of a preferred course of action, together with the decision it supports, the material reasoning behind it, and the conditions that could change it.
Canonical record
- ID
- CM-301
- Domain
- communicating
- Type
- capability
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Status
- canonical
- Handbook
- Chapter 5.1
Related concepts
Schema-verified relationships
- TH-101 · Decision Legibility™ — supports: A visible specific supported and actionable recommendation improves overall Decision Legibility.
- OR-201 · Governing Signal™ — enables: Governing Signal places the recommendation at the earliest useful moment.
- DL-608 · Executive Delivery Mastery™ — supports: Recommendation Clarity supplies the governing judgment that integrated delivery must preserve.
- DL-607 · Executive Influence™ — supports: Recommendation Clarity makes the preferred course explicit before alignment and commitment are requested.
- DL-601 · Executive Presence™ — precedes: Recommendation Clarity supplies the governing judgment that Executive Presence must steward credibly during live execution.
- CM-307 · Executive Dialogue™ — supports: Recommendation Clarity supplies the governing recommendation that Executive Dialogue must preserve or deliberately revise.
- CM-306 · Explicit Executive Ask™ — precedes: Recommendation Clarity states what should happen before Explicit Executive Ask states who must decide.
- CM-305 · Precision & Ambiguity Control™ — supports: Recommendation Clarity supplies the preferred action whose scope owner timing and conditions must permit one practical interpretation.
- CM-304 · Evidence Framing™ — supports: Recommendation Clarity provides the preferred action whose evidentiary support and conditions must be made explicit.
- CM-303 · Strategic Opening™ — supports: Recommendation Clarity supplies the preferred course that a Strategic Opening may introduce before supporting evidence.
- CM-302 · Audience Alignment™ — precedes: Recommendation Clarity establishes the preferred course before Audience Alignment adapts its presentation to a specific audience.
- TH-105 · Executive Intent™ — supports: Executive Intent defines the organizational outcome the recommendation is intended to produce.
- TH-107 · Executive Judgment™ — supports: Executive Judgment produces the preferred course of action that Recommendation Clarity makes visible.
- TH-103 · Decision Confidence™ — supports: Decision Confidence calibrates recommendation strength to evidence and uncertainty.
- TH-106 · Materiality™ — supports: Materiality selects the decision-changing reason and condition that belong in the recommendation.
- OR-206 · Evidence Architecture™ — supports: Evidence Architecture organizes the support behind the preferred course.
- AP-902 · Hidden Recommendation™ — contrasts with: Hidden Recommendation leaves the preferred course implicit while Recommendation Clarity makes judgment directly evaluable.
- PT-802 · Executive Recommendation Pattern™ — uses: The Executive Recommendation Pattern operationalizes Recommendation Clarity as a repeatable structure.
Research references
Provenance
- Decision-support communication
- Argumentation
- Judgment under uncertainty
- Advisory communication
- Speech act theory
- Risk communication
- Evidence-based decision-making
- Audience design
- Relevance theory