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Mission-Alignment Filter.

Convert your mission and priorities into a short set of questions any opportunity must pass, so no becomes a sentence you can say and defend.

The filter. An opportunity has to pass all four to be a yes.

1. Does it serve the people we exist to serve? (yes / no / sort of)

2. Does it create the change we exist to create? (yes / no / sort of)

3. Does it fit one of our priorities? If yes, which one?

4. Can we do it well without starving something we already committed to? (yes / no)

The scoring rule: any No is a no, including a No on priority fit. Two Sort-ofs is a no. A worthy opportunity that fits no priority is still a no, because a filter that lets everything through is a rubber stamp.

The defense line, for a real no: "We are not the right home for this, because ______. Here is who might be: ______."

Keep this filter where decisions happen. It is the thing you hold up against the next tempting offer at 4pm on a Friday.

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Built from the Strategic Priorities Frame. Applied in the Keep, Stop, Start map. Back to the guide, or start over.