Decision Latency Index

How many days does your company need to make a decision that should take 30 minutes?

A semi-serious heuristic check. It does not grade management quality; it shows where decision rights, approvals and context start costing too much.

12 questions · ~2 minutes

Where does a decision lose speed?

Answer for normal medium-impact decisions — not an acquisition or strategy reset, but work that should close without becoming its own era.

01 A decision that needs about 30 minutes of actual thinking usually takes how much calendar time?

02 How clear is it who has the right to make the final call?

03 How many people typically need to agree before a decision counts as decided?

04 Before deciding, how often does someone need to reconstruct context from chats, meetings and decks?

05 What happens when the responsible person makes a reasonable call without pre-aligning everyone?

06 If two leaders disagree, how quickly is it clear who closes the disagreement?

07 Do reversible decisions get a lighter process than irreversible ones?

08 How often is a decision delayed because “we need a little more data”?

09 After a decision meeting, is it usually clear who owns the next step?

10 How often does a decision go upward mainly because nobody wants to carry the risk?

11 How easy is it to run a small experiment instead of extending the debate?

12 How many decisions are simply waiting because the right person has not replied yet?

The point

Slow decisions rarely appear as a separate problem. They show up as project delay, another meeting, inbox waiting or an unexpected escalation.

The more reversible decisions can be closed near the work, the less the organization pays to coordinate itself.