Personal Worked Examples (Executive)

Field

Detail

Problem

The board is not clear which investment option to choose.

Outcome

A decision with the trade-offs and uncertainties understood.

Context

Agreed options, evidence, constraints and the board’s concerns.

Habit

Before the next board paper, ask for the strongest counter-argument and check the evidence behind it.

Shift

Compare the options, expose the trade-off and rehearse the challenge you least want to hear.

Prompt

Here is the problem: The board is not clear which investment option to choose. The outcome we need is: A decision with the trade-offs and uncertainties understood. Use this context: [insert the relevant evidence and constraints]. Ask me what is missing. Compare the options, expose the trade-off and rehearse the challenge you least want to hear. Separate evidence from interpretation and help me decide what to check before acting.

Field

Detail

Problem

A growth plan feels convincing, but its weak assumptions are hard to see from inside it.

Outcome

A revised strategic choice, the assumptions behind it and a question to investigate before committing.

Context

Your strategy, customer evidence, investment limits and your own reasons for backing it.

Habit

Write your view before asking AI. Keep one challenge that changes your thinking and one reason for rejecting a suggestion.

Shift

Explore plausible success and failure stories, then borrow an idea from an unfamiliar industry.

Prompt

Here is my strategy and my own view: [context]. Imagine it is three years later. In one plausible future the strategy succeeded; in another it failed. What went right, what went wrong and which early decisions mattered? Offer a third route inspired by a different industry and explain where the analogy breaks. Label these as scenarios, not forecasts. Ask me which assumptions we should test now.