Decision Making Principle 5: Reversibility Awareness
Classify how costly undo is before debate closes — rigor and supersession speed follow
Principle
Every consequential decision is classified by reversibility before bind — reversible, costly to reverse, or irreversible — so process rigor and mandatory supersession speed match stakes.
Decision Making Principle 5 is reversibility awareness. Without classification, every choice feels catastrophic or trivial — fear and overanalysis both increase.
What it requires
- Decision reversibility class recorded at bind — reversible | costly to reverse | irreversible
- Combined with severity via the Decision Strategy Framework
- Execution runway and trigger tightness scaled to class — reversible → supersede quickly when triggers fire
Why irreducible
Principle 5 sets how fast “delaying supersession is worse than reversing” becomes mandatory (We Already Decided). Misclassifying downward is governance failure.
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