Meeting Summaries Are Solved. Decision Accountability Isn't.
AI summaries got good. The category quietly turned into a commodity in 2024 and nobody told the buyers. The problem worth paying for moved — and most teams haven't noticed yet.
Field notes on running meetings that produce decisions worth remembering.
AI summaries got good. The category quietly turned into a commodity in 2024 and nobody told the buyers. The problem worth paying for moved — and most teams haven't noticed yet.
A meeting can end with a clean decision, a named owner, and a real deadline — and still quietly fall apart two weeks later. Here's the lightweight follow-through ritual that catches the drift before it compounds.
Most meetings end when time runs out — not when decisions are made. A simple closing ritual changes that. Here's the framework, the verbatim script, and the three reasons it fails when teams skip it.
The data on meeting governance failure is clear. Most meetings don't produce decisions, owners, or next steps. Here's what the research actually shows — and why that 54% figure is a structural problem, not a discipline one.
Most meeting-cost calculators stop at "salary times duration." The real number lives in the decisions that never quite landed — here's how to size it, and what to do about it.