理路整然
ri.ro.sei.zen

Literally: logic/truth – road – organize – “in that way”

Alternately: Of someone’s thoughts or speech: coherent, cogent, rational; following a coherent thread or throughline from premise to conclusion. The nuance in modern usage seems to be of someone presenting a case that is clear and minimizes the barriers to getting agreement from others, especially in a business context.

Notes: This is another compound of compounds; 理路 refers to a line of reasoning, and 整然 refers to something being in proper order.

Replacing 然 with homophone 全 (“whole,” “all”) is an error.

This compound is considered an antonym of 支離滅裂.

The big picture is easy; the hard part is deciding what real-world considerations belong in which step of the flowchart