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Set an annual agenda, define information standards, and prepare evidence-backed decision briefs before each meeting. Record every decision with owners and due dates, then track action closure and information timeliness as KPIs between meetings.

A decision brief should state the objective, baseline and target metrics, hard constraints, feasible options with risk-adjusted expected value, and a confidence level for each claim. It should also flag assumptions that could reverse the recommendation.

Track board decision quality, action closure rate, and information timeliness with baselines, targets, and trends. Compare expected versus actual outcomes of past decisions to calibrate recommendation accuracy over time.

Approval is required for money movement, binding commitments, pricing changes, employment actions, external communications, and anything above budget or risk limits. The Skill only executes authorized low-risk reversible internal actions on its own.

It cannot make legal, tax, or regulated determinations, which must be escalated to licensed specialists. It also must not invent benchmarks or facts, and it stops when missing information could reverse a decision or change an approval boundary.