A practical diagnostic for seeing whether each pillar works in daily behavior.
Source: Signal Architecture by Samuel Awonorin
Signal Integrity
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Red flag: Three managers explain the same policy in three different ways.
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Green flag: People can repeat the expected output without needing the sender in the room.
Signal Routing
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Red flag: Important requests are posted to a broad group chat with no named owner.
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Green flag: Every important request has one owner, one route, and one next review time.
Signal Latency
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Red flag: A decision thread stays open for more than two working days without resolution.
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Green flag: Owners post a decision, deadline, or blocker within the agreed response window.
Signal Redundancy
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Red flag: The team searches chat for more than five minutes to find last week?s decision.
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Green flag: Every important meeting ends with the decision recorded in the agreed source.
Signal Amplification
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Red flag: Teams can name five priorities but cannot name the current priority.
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Green flag: Leaders repeat the few signals that matter until trade-offs become obvious.