NAVIGATING in the CLEAR: Intelligence and Decision-Making Real-World Company

There comes a moment in any organization when someone says, "We didn't see it coming." That is almost never true. The information was there. What was missing was the system to connect it with the decision-maker while it was still actionable. *Navegar sin niebla* (Navigating Without Fog) is a book about that system. It is not about state intelligence or resources available only to massive corporations. It is about what a real company-with a real team and a real budget-can do to stop being blindsided by events it could have anticipated. Across sixteen chapters, Manu Robledo builds a comprehensive framework-covering everything from formulating the right questions to ensuring analysis doesn't just get filed away unread. He illustrates these concepts through four fictional companies that will feel familiar because they closely resemble real-world organizations: a startup that produces the right reports but fails to get them to decision-makers; a telecom operator that has known what needs to be done for years yet still hasn't acted; a family business that discovers its greatest risk comes not from competitors but from its own job postings; and a software SME that learns-slowly and through hard knocks-the difference between knowing something and knowing it in a way that enables action. This is not a self-help book, nor is it an academic manual. It is a practical guide for executives, entrepreneurs, and consultants who make decisions based on incomplete information-which is, ultimately, the only context in which real decisions are made. Manu Robledo is a retired intelligence officer from the Spanish Marine Corps, founder of BrokenMap Solutions LLC, and a strategic consultant with executive experience in the private sector. He teaches intelligence-related courses at the LISA Institute and CISDE, among other platforms, and is the author of three books on intelligence applied to the business world-all available in English: *Intelligence as an Anticipatory Tool* (2020), *Obtaining Information Through Human Interaction* (2022), and *Gathering Evidence in Tactical Scenarios* (2024). *Navegar sin niebla* addresses intelligence from the perspective of the executive and the entrepreneur for the first time: not as a discipline of information gathering, but as an integrated system for analysis and decision-making.