The Pulse
Where is execution getting harder than it should?
Sixteen questions. Five minutes. No prep.
A directional read on where your organization may be creating execution friction — and where to look first.
Built around one question
Why does execution break?
The Eight Execution Friction Signals
Execution isn't a department. It's a system.
What you get
Pulse Read
Directional score
8 Signals
Where friction appears
Priority Read
Where to look first
Signal Context
What the pattern may mean
First Actions
What to test next
Blind-Spot Note
What is not visible
What friction actually costs
Execution friction starts as a nuisance and ends as a constraint on the owner.
One condition sits at the center: the business working harder than necessary to get results. Its cost travels outward in four rings. The further out it gets, the larger the business impact.
Ring 1
Visible Cost
Costs you cash
Rework, overtime, expediting, firefighting, last-minute corrections.
“What is friction costing us today?”
Ring 2
Operating Cost
Costs you management capacity
Slow decisions, leaders stepping in, duplicated effort, meeting overload, constant follow-up.
“How much leadership energy is spent keeping the business moving?”
Ring 3
Opportunity Cost
Costs you growth
Delayed plans, unused capacity, work turned away, initiatives that stall before they start.
“What can we not do because friction is consuming capacity?”
Ring 4
Leadership Cost
Costs you strategic attention
Senior-leader intervention, escalation, firefighting, dependency, continuity risk, key-leader overload.
“How much leadership capacity is being consumed by dependency?”
The Pulse is not the Blindspot Check
The Pulse tells you where to look. The Blindspot Check is the full diagnostic behind PXF™ — 64 items across eight domains, execution maturity and execution risk read separately, with evidence attached to every answer.
See the full diagnostic