The Thursday Note
One letter a week about how organisations actually decide things
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The meeting that exists to avoid a decision
How to spot one from the agenda, and what to do if you are in it.
Consensus is not agreement
The difference matters most at the moment somebody has to act.
Who owns a decision nobody made
Usually the last person to touch it, which is nobody's idea of a system.
Against the pre-read
Everybody says they read it. Almost nobody read it.
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