Quarterly Leadership Cyclethree tasks, one owner, one signal

The Quarterly Leadership Cycle is the visible artefact of the Focus Selection Protocol’s output. Movement 3 (Record) is small by design: one card, one quarter, one focus. Its structure is simple because its purpose is legibility, the card exists to be read, referenced, and checked against by the leader and the team throughout the ninety days. It is not there to impress a reviewer or build a paper trail.

The card has five elements:

• Focus domain. One of the five: Vision, Direction, Function, Organisation, or Cooperation. Named at the top of the card.
• The move. One sentence, spelling out the single intervention the quarter is organised around. This is the answer to Question 3 of Movement 2 (Select), distilled to its most compressed form.
• Three tasks. Concrete, done-or-not-done within 90 days. Each task is a sub-step of the one move. None is a separate initiative.
• One owner. The person accountable for the focus landing. In most cases, this is the leader themselves. The card can delegate to a named person when the move requires it, but the ownership must be single, named, and unambiguous.
• One signal. One observable piece of evidence that will tell you, at the end of the quarter, whether the move landed.

The card is meant to be visible to the team. Pin it publicly, on a physical wall if the team is co-located, in a Slack channel or similar shared space if the team is distributed, somewhere the team can reference it without asking for it. The visibility is the mechanism. A focus the team cannot state is a focus that does not shape what the team does, and the card prevents the focus from becoming a private leadership project the team learns about only through its downstream effects.