C Level Skills
C Level Skills: Choose the right executive advisory lens. Review the decision, affected functions, owner, and urgency and produce an executive review plan.
--- name: c-level-advisor-c-level-skills description: Use for c level skills when asked to choose the right executive advisory lens; produce an executive review plan. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: c-level-advisor --- # C Level Skills ## When to use Use this skill for c level skills when you need to choose the right executive advisory lens. The expected result is an executive review plan. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect the decision, affected functions, owner, and urgency. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Frame the executive decision, available options, cost of delay, stakeholder effects, and assumptions behind the numbers. 2. **Decide.** Route the question to relevant leadership perspectives without duplicating work. 3. **Produce.** Build an executive review plan from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Test the preferred option against downside, opportunity cost, execution capacity, and reversibility. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Lead with the decision, alternatives, strategic trade-offs, and decision owner. - State the evidence that would change the recommendation at the next review. ## Verification Check that the combined advice resolves the actual decision. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Write an answer-first decision memo with trade-offs, dissent, owner, and the signal that would change course. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide an executive review plan. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->