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Information is only worth gathering if it changes what someone decides.
Leaders tell me about teams giving up a real share of their capacity to governance reports that mostly go unread, on top of the meetings they have to sit in themselves.
I think it persists because asking for a report feels like control and costs the person asking nothing. The cost falls on whoever writes it, and if nobody reads it, nobody notices.
Some reporting exists for audit or regulation, and that’s fine. For everything else, name the decision a report will inform before you ask for it. If you can’t name one, you probably don’t need the report. And if someone asks you for a report, ask them which decisions it will inform.
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