C.40.OI:2 - Problem

Without an explicit inquiry boundary:

• a solution label substitutes for the receiving contribution;
• “development” silently shifts among person, organization, technology, knowledge, and population meanings;
• a supplier’s promise is treated as the receiver’s problem;
• the horizon expands or contracts to make a favored direction look plausible;
• safety, workload, continuity, privacy, reversibility, or another protected condition appears only after a candidate has gained momentum;
• search effort grows without a proportional stopping reason; and
• missing authority or evidence is hidden by a polished opportunity statement.

The reader then cannot tell whether to characterize the subject, search neighboring possibilities, request a direct specialist result, bound an advising relationship, or stop.