Topic
Coordination
All memos
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The side conversations where decisions get made
A lot of the real decisions in a company happen in the gaps between the official meetings. The meeting is where the decision gets announced, not where it gets made.
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The cost of coordinating without structure
Every company past a certain size pays a hidden tax on every decision because information moves through people instead of through structure. The bill compounds until someone designs the coordination on purpose.
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The coordination layer nobody owns
Many capable companies underperform not because they lack strategy or talent, but because they are weak in the layer in between, the one that turns a decision into a working handoff. It is rarely owned as a system, so it is rarely maintained as one, and it quietly decides what the company can actually do.