---
id: "question-measuring-true-agreement"
type: "open-question"
source_timestamps: ["§ Reaching True Agreement"]
tags: ["metrics", "assessment"]
related: ["concept-true-agreement"]
resolutionPath: "Developing a standardized survey or audit tool that tests executives on the specific parameters, trade-offs, and red lines of a proposed change before launch."
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-cl-85-false-alignment-trap"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/07/the-false-alignment-trap"
sourceTitle: "The False Alignment Trap"
---
# How can true agreement be quantitatively measured?

**Open question:** How can [[concept-true-agreement|true agreement]] be *quantitatively* measured?

While the authors provide a **qualitative** process for reaching true agreement (debate, signing documents), they do not provide a quantitative threshold or metric to definitively prove that true agreement has been reached prior to the execution phase.

**Possible resolution path:** Develop a standardized survey or audit tool that tests executives on the specific parameters, trade-offs, and red lines of a proposed change *before* launch — turning the qualitative 'can you write down the same specifics?' test (as at the North American energy company in [[concept-false-alignment]]) into a scored instrument.