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Delegating Decisions vs Checklists

A short logistics decision problem. Use the supplied facts, commit to one action, then check your reasoning. Fictional practice; no leaderboard score is recorded.

Logistics · delegating outcomes

You handed your dispatch supervisor a 14-step checklist for building the daily route plan. He follows it exactly, and every exception still comes back to you, which is about a dozen times a day.

Given factScenario data
Route-planning instructions14-step checklist
Supervisor behaviorFollows checklist exactly
Exceptions escalated to youAbout 12 / day
What should change?

Choose an action, then lock it in to reveal the reasoning. This is untimed practice.

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