Interactive resources
Decision Rights Architecture — five tools
Built for the episode. Use them alongside the video, in a leadership offsite, or share with your governance team. All data sourced from the US National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill investigation.
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Timeline
The 40-Minute Window
From the first test anomaly at 5:00 PM to the gas eruption at 9:49 PM. Three phases, every timestamp sourced.
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Signal degradation
100% to Zero
How the crew's complete certainty about a failed test was filtered to zero through two organizational mechanisms.
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Framework
Framework card
Decision Rights Architecture
Three elements: Decision Registry, Override Protocol, Authority Audit. Expandable with Deepwater application for each.
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Authority gap
BP vs Transocean
The two-column authority structure, the gap between them, and the arithmetic of what that gap produced.
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Assessment
Self-assessment
Is Authority Clear in Your Organization?
Five questions. Personalized authority clarity score. Compared against the Deepwater Horizon pattern. 2 minutes.
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Book
Full framework
Stitch In Time
The complete Power and Mandate framework including the Mandate Charter, Correction Channel, and 90-day installation sequence.
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"I watched them accept an explanation that contradicted standard well control practices. I knew it was wrong."
Mike Williams, Chief Electronics Technician, Deepwater Horizon. Congressional testimony, June 17, 2010.
Assessment tools
Apply the framework to your organization
Two tools to assess your organization's authority architecture and signal integrity side by side.
5-question assessment
Decision Rights Self-Assessment
Is authority documented? Can anyone compel escalation? Is authority drift audited quarterly? Five questions, personalized score, first action identified. No account required.
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8-question AI diagnostic
Signal Integrity Diagnostic
The companion tool from the Signals and Risk domain. If authority architecture addresses what happens when a decision is contested, signal architecture addresses whether the decision-maker receives the right information. Both are required.
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Companion Domains — Signal architecture determines whether the right information reaches decision authority. Decision Rights Architecture determines what happens when it does. Talent Flow determines whether the organisation retains the capability to act. All three are required for organisational resilience.
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Organizational consulting
Stitch In Time Consulting
Senior management, board and executive engagements: Scan Diagnostic, 90-Day Sprint, Governance Embed. For organizations that want to repair before strain becomes crisis.
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Private Coaching with I.S. Matthew
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5M Masterclasses
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5M seats a limited cohort of 30 carefully selected professionals over 90 days to work through all five domains as they apply directly to their organisation.