04 · Choose · Web guide
The Executive Decision
Is this opportunity worthy of your next chapter?
When an opportunity becomes concrete, momentum and flattery can take over. This guide helps you test the opportunity against what you set out to find.
Use this guide when…
- an offer or serious discussion is on the table
- you are comparing options that are hard to compare
- you feel pressure to decide faster than you would like
A common pitfall
Saying yes to the opportunity in front of you instead of the chapter you want to write.
- 01
Does this role serve the chapter you described at the start?
Return to your answers in The Next Chapter.
- 02
What is the real mandate — and who decides it?
Understand owners, board, authority and expectations beyond the title.
- 03
What do you know, and what are you assuming?
About the culture, the team, the finances and the reason the role is open.
- 04
Under which conditions would you succeed — or struggle?
Name them, and test whether they are present.
- 05
What would make you say no?
Decide your boundaries before negotiations make them harder to see.