Book six by Stephen L Cohen
The Decision Owner: Decision Rights, Delegation, and Escalation Under Pressure
When nobody owns the call, the operation is already drifting.
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An unowned decision costs more than a wrong one.
The standard is one named owner, authority matched to responsibility, clear escalation triggers, and a handoff that is not complete until the next owner accepts it.
The operating problem
The Decision Owner
Most operations do not fail because somebody made the wrong call. They fail because nobody was sure who was entitled to make it. The Decision Owner is an operating manual for authority: who owns the call, what they may decide alone, when they must escalate, and how responsibility transfers cleanly. It is written for business owners, operational leaders, supervisors, and high-liability teams that cannot afford duplicated work, conflicting instructions, late escalation, or stalled decisions.
Inside the book
Practical controls you can use
- Assign one named owner to each decision
- Match authority to responsibility and competence
- Delegate the power and access the task requires
- Escalate conflicts without surrendering initiative
- Transfer ownership through accepted handoffs
Who it is for
Built for people who carry accountability
Business owners, operational leaders, public-safety and security supervisors, managers, and high-liability teams that cannot afford stalled decisions or conflicting authority.
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