Strategy often treats symptoms because it never questions the worldview and story underneath. This skill exposes those deeper layers and builds alternative futures from them, so new options become visible. Runs Sohail Inayatullah's Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) on an issue. It goes down four layers (litany, systemic causes, worldview, myth and metaphor), looks sideways at contrasting perspectives at each layer, then builds alternative futures back up from new metaphors, with a side-by-side comparison. Runs in interactive mode (you pick the threads at each layer) or auto mode (it picks four threads with a deliberate spread and runs to the end). Use when someone says "causa…
