People leave meetings thinking they agreed on something, then weeks later realize nobody defined what done actually looks like or who owns it. Ask the hard question before the meeting ends: what does done actually look like?
You leave the meeting thinking everything is clear. Then a week later, it's not even close. Now you're chasing it. You're following up. You're back in the middle trying to clean it up. And you're thinking, how did this get so off? Go back to the moment when someone said, yeah, we should be in a good place by next week. And nobody stepped in because the meeting was moving, because it sounded good enough, because no one wanted to slow it down. So it passed. No one said what good place meant. No one said what was actually getting done. No one locked in who owned it, so everyone walked out with their own version. That's what you're chasing now. Not because they dropped it, but because it was never clear to begin with. Next time, stop it right there. What does done actually look like?
