Responsibility Without Authority Is Not Trust
A person cannot truly own an outcome while every meaningful choice still belongs to someone else. Trust requires boundaries, but it also requires enough authority to act inside them.
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A Meeting Is Not the Same Thing as Progress
Meetings are easy to see, schedule, count, and defend. Progress is harder. That is why organizations can become very good at gathering people around work that no one is clearly authorized to finish.
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