Good governance questions are not difficult. They are uncomfortable, which is a different thing. Each one below can be asked in a single sentence and answered honestly in under a minute — or not at all, which is itself the answer.
Name the two or three assumptions that, if wrong, would change the recommendation. If nobody can name them, the decision has not been examined.
Not who produced it — who checked it. A number that has circulated for six months without review is institutional memory, not evidence.
A board that can describe the disconfirming signal in advance is far more likely to notice it later.
Every review has a boundary. Making the boundary explicit converts an unknown risk into an accepted one, with an owner attached.
Not defend the outcome — outcomes vary. Defend the process, the evidence, and the reasoning as they stood on the day. If the answer is no, the gap is worth closing before the decision, not after.