Hard Call

When you need to make a tough executive decision and want structured guidance, this skill walks you through the mental framework. It helps you clarify the core issue, examine your options systematically, and consider second-order consequences you might be overlooking. Think of it as a forcing function to slow down and interrogate your own thinking before pulling the trigger on something risky. It's not going to make the decision for you, but it surfaces the questions that c-level folks tend to skip when they're moving fast. Useful when the stakes are high and you want to check your blind spots before committing.

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$ npx -y skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill hard-call --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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/executive-mentor:hard-call — Framework for Decisions With No Good Options

Command: /executive-mentor:hard-call <decision>

For the decisions that keep you up at 3am. Firing a co-founder. Laying off 20% of the team. Killing a product that customers love. Pivoting. Shutting down.

These decisions don't have a right answer. They have a less wrong answer. This framework helps you find it.

Why These Decisions Are Hard

Not because the data is unclear. Often, the data is clear. They're hard because:

Real people are affected — someone loses a job, a relationship ends, a team is hurt
You've been avoiding the decision — which means the problem is already worse than it was
Irreversibility — unlike most business decisions, you can't undo this easily
You have skin in the game — your judgment about the right call is clouded by your feelings about it

The longer you avoid a hard call, the worse the situation usually gets. The company that needed a 10% cut 6 months ago now needs a 25% cut. The co-founder conversation that should have happened at month 4 is happening at month 14.

Most hard decisions are late decisions.