The Decisive Point
The Decisive Point
Ten minutes. One verdict on how your effort is shaped.
At Cannae, Hannibal was outnumbered close to two to one and destroyed a Roman army by concentrating force where it produced a result out of all proportion to the effort spent. He did not fight harder everywhere. He fought decisively in one place.
Most people do the opposite without noticing. Effort gets divided across every front that asks for it, each one gets enough attention to stay alive and not enough to matter, and the quarter ends with real work done and nothing taken.
This instrument measures two things your calendar cannot: where your effort actually goes, and whether it is going where the return is.
Your fronts
Every front you are currently pushing on. Divide a hundred units of effort between them as they are today, not as you wish they were. Then judge what each one would return if it went well.
The shape of your quarter
Width shows effort. Depth of colour shows return potential.
Where effort and return disagree
Effort share against return potential, front by front. The gap is what costs you.
This is free, and it stays free
No account, no email, no trial. If it was useful, send it to someone whose quarter looks like yours.
What it does not do is tell you what to do with the answer. There is no objective here, no sequencing, no pre-mortem, no weekly review. A diagnosis is not a campaign.
The campaign is The War Room — ninety days planned properly, in six stages, of which this is one. $97, one file, yours permanently.
The Decisive Point — a free instrument from House of Hannibal. Your work is stored in this browser on this device only. Nothing is transmitted anywhere and there is no account. Print before clearing your browser data.