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A governance failure mode in which factors intended to discipline or limit decision execution come to replace decision authority itself. Rather than constraining how a decision is implemented, these factors implicitly determine whether a decision can be made at all. Authority is not overridden, transferred, or contested; it is gradually extinguished.
A family office defers a mission-aligned investment not because anyone opposes it, but because legal counsel hasn't cleared it, reputational analysis is incomplete, one family member expressed discomfort, and the committee process hasn't concluded. Each constraint is defensible; together they extinguish authority.
CSFDAFO Section 3