03.2
Cognitive guidance
An answer that arrives in the work, written so another officer can use it.
Cognitive guidance, as this practice uses the term, is the ability to take an idea that arrives in the meeting and keep it. The note is not a transcript. It is the sentence another officer can act on when the founder of the idea has left the room.
Boards already do a version of this when a thought surfaces that was not on the paper. The practice treats that moment as the work, then asks for the step it belongs to. A thought with no step is kept in the margin. A thought with a step goes on the ladder.
Guidance stays with the strategy. It is not filed as a mood, and it is not renamed as spiritual leadership. The distinction is the one the practice opened with in 2016.