Who gets to decide what?
The single document that accelerates decision-making by 30 to 50 percent in many businesses. Not because decisions get better. Because people stop waiting.
Decision Rights — the hidden accelerator.
Decision Rights is the most underutilized tool in growing businesses. It's simple: you define who gets to make what decisions.
This is not a limitation. It's a liberation. When people know they have authority to make certain decisions, they make them. When they don't know, they wait.
The three levels
This person makes the decision. They own it. They're accountable for the outcome. This is the best place to be.
This person doesn't decide, but their opinion matters and should be sought. Lower stress and still valuable.
This person doesn't decide or input, but gets to know what was decided and why. Important for context.
For every repeating decision in your business — hiring, pricing, project scope changes, vendor selection, budget reallocation — map each stakeholder to one of these three.
Then write it down. Put it where people can see it. Reference it consistently.
This single document will accelerate your decision-making by 30 to 50 percent in many businesses. Not because decisions get better — but because people stop waiting.
The mapper below pre-loads five common decision types. Edit them, add your own, and assign owners. When you're ready, score the map — the tool flags the three traps that cost businesses the most velocity: orphan decisions, leader bottlenecks, and consensus traps.
Decision Rights Mapper
List your repeating decisions. Assign each to a single decider, identify whose input matters, and who needs to be informed. The tool flags traps automatically.
What to do with the map.
Write it down. Put it somewhere your team can see it. Reference it the next time someone asks "should I decide this, or do you want to?" The answer is already on the page.
Then review it quarterly. Roles evolve. Trust grows. Authority should expand. When someone demonstrates good judgment consistently, their authority expands. When someone needs more guardrails, the authority gets narrowed. This isn't punishment — it's calibration.
The businesses that move fast aren't the ones with the smartest leaders. They're the ones where the people closest to the work have the authority to act on what they see.
Decision Rights is the framework. TruePower makes it personal.
Maximum Velocity covers the full architecture: Decision Rights for types of decisions, TruePower for individual roles, and how the two compress the permission-seeking spiral.
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