One key lesson from several failed projects is a culture of low discipline, infinite activity, and treating documentation only as "conversational residue" (meeting minutes, notes, action items).
For high discipline, I default to clarity about what is "Finite Productivity." Alignment on formal documentation (productivity) is in the front seat. Meetings and email (activity) are in the back seat.
Finite Productivity is a sign the team is making the right decisions in the right order ... with trustworthy, coupled authority and accountability
Meeting minutes are a sign that the team is vulnerable to poorly structured, poorly sequenced, and poorly assigned decisions. Decoupled authority and accountability. Low trustworthiness.
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