Why This Law Exists
Accountability becomes credible when leaders and employees operate from a shared reality. Visibility must reveal not only what happened, but the conditions, constraints, decisions, dependencies, and ownership that produced the result.
Executive Standard
Create trusted, contextual, decision-ready visibility before assigning accountability. Make the work, outcome, cause, constraint, owner, risk, and required action visible at the level where leadership can intervene.
Required Leadership Behaviors
- Define the decisions leaders must make before designing dashboards.
- Connect measures across functions so causes and consequences can be seen together.
- Use evidence to coach, remove barriers, and clarify ownership—not merely to inspect.
- Escalate material conditions while options still exist.
Evidence of Maturity
- Leaders use one version of enterprise reality.
- Performance reviews identify causes, owners, and decisions—not only variances.
- Employees understand what they own and how success is measured.
- Issues become visible early enough for prevention or intervention.
Failure Signals
Fragmented reporting, competing versions of the truth, hindsight-only metrics, accountability debates without context, and late escalation.
Executive Reflection