Principal Resolution // Institutional State
Broken Compass
Severity
Resolution Tier
ROADMAPForensic Citations
19 VerifiedState ID
BROKEN_COMPASSThe Pattern
Strategic direction is contested or unclear at the leadership level. Decisions are slow, debated excessively, or reversed. The organization is executing, but nobody agrees on where it's going — and the conversation about that hasn't happened.
Advisor // So What
Stalled decisions don't stay contained. They radiate. And the leaders most responsible for setting direction are often the least equipped to see it, because the defensive routines that protect their certainty are the same ones blocking the root-cause conversation.
Supporting Research
Supporting Research
19 Linked
Organizations With Clear Accountability Structures Are 2.5x More Likely to Outperform
McKinsey -- Organizational Health Index, 2022
Only 40% of Workers Know What Their Company Stands For
Gallup -- State of the Workplace, 2022
Employees Who Receive Regular Feedback Are 3x More Engaged
Gallup -- Re-Engineering Performance Management, 2021
Pulse of the Profession 2023: Power Skills
Project Management Institute -- PMI Pulse of the Profession, 2023
Anemic Employee Engagement Points to Leadership Challenges
Gallup -- Gallup Workplace, 2025
Untangling Your Organization's Decision Making
McKinsey & Company -- McKinsey Quarterly, 2017
Effective Decision Making in Organizations: Cutting the Cost of Inefficiency
McKinsey & Company -- McKinsey Quarterly, 2019
2023 Global Human Capital Trends: New Fundamentals for a Boundaryless World
Deloitte Insights -- Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends Report, 2023
Why Strategy Execution Unravels — and What to Do About It
Harvard Business Review -- Harvard Business Review, 2015
What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
Harvard Business Review -- Harvard Business Review, 2018
The Hard Side of Change Management
Harvard Business Review -- Harvard Business Review, 2005
Make Time for the Work That Matters
Harvard Business Review -- Harvard Business Review, 2013
Getting Organizational Decision Making Right
Deloitte Insights -- Deloitte Insights Report, 2022
Why Good Strategies Fail: Lessons for the C-Suite
The Economist Intelligence Unit -- EIU Research Report, 2013
Teaching Smart People How to Learn
Harvard Business Review -- Harvard Business Review, 1991
The Intelligence
Intelligence Memos
The Resolution
Resolution Core
Resolution Playbook // PB-010
What this looks like when it gets addressed.
The resolution playbook for Broken Compass -- the mechanism, the cost, and what the path forward actually looks like for an organization at this profile.
Read the PlaybookResolution Core is gated.
The proprietary resolution architecture for Broken Compass -- case frameworks, intervention sequences, and operational detail -- is available to verified clients only.
BROKEN_COMPASS // Principal Resolution