On Attention, this team rates itself 2.0 above what its own records show. That is the finding, and it is one the team could not have reached by discussion, because everyone in the room holds the belief being measured.
Each score is the mean of 6 behaviorally anchored items, 1 to 5, where 5 describes the healthiest state. Spread is the distance between the highest and lowest reading of the same organization. A spread above 1.5 is structural: these leaders are not describing the same place.
| Condition | Score | Band | Spread | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attention | 4.0 | Disciplined | 0.0 | |
| Alignment Divergence | 3.7 | Emerging | 2.5 | |
| Authority Divergence | 3.3 | Emerging | 2.9 | |
| Adaptability | 3.2 | Emerging | 0.0 |
The widest disagreement is on Authority. The lowest score is Adaptability. Those are different conditions, and the first usually matters more: a mid score everyone disputes is a harder problem than a low score everyone agrees on.
The same instrument, the same day, the same organization, answered at different heights. A gap here is not people disagreeing. It is something not traveling between tiers.
| Condition | Executive team n=4 | One level down n=4 | Two levels down n=4 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attention | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 |
| Alignment | 4.7 | 4.2 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
| Authority | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 0.0 |
| Adaptability | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 0.0 |
Executive team reads Alignment at 4.7, Two levels down at 2.2. A 2.5 gap between altitudes on the same question, answered about the same organization on the same day.
The left column is what this team believes. The right is what its own records show: calendars, priority lists, budget movements, decision records, after-action reviews. Where they disagree by 1.0 or more, the disagreement is the finding.
| Condition | Perception | Evidence | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attention | 4.0 | 2.0 | +2.0 |
| Alignment | 3.7 | 4.0 | -0.3 |
| Authority | 3.3 | 4.0 | -0.7 |
| Adaptability | 3.2 | 3.0 | +0.2 |
On Attention, this team rates itself 2.0 above what its own records show. The belief is shared, which is why nobody in the room has corrected it.
90 days since the previous measurement of Northwind Logistics. Half a point is the smallest change worth calling a change; anything less is inside the noise of a group this size.
Attention held at 4.0. Nothing measurable moved either way.
Alignment moved up 0.8, from 2.9 to 3.7.
Authority fell 0.8, from 4.1 to 3.3. Worth asking what was added in between rather than what was removed.
Adaptability held at 3.2. Nothing measurable moved either way.