During IDS®, our leadership team frequently debates who actually owns a problem because our Accountability Chart™ roles are unclear or overlapping. How do we resolve these structural disputes during the meeting without letting the session devolve into an organizational redesign?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Do not try to redesign your Accountability Chart™ during your weekly Level 10 Meeting™. This is a major trap that will completely derail your ninety-minute pulse and leave you with zero solved issues. If a debate breaks out during IDS® regarding who owns a specific problem, the facilitator must stop the structural discussion immediately.

To keep the meeting moving, the Integrator must step in and temporarily assign the issue to a single leader for that week. This is a temporary band-aid to ensure the immediate issue is addressed. Then, the structural overlap itself must be added to your Issues List as a separate, distinct item. Label it clearly as Accountability Chart Overlap.

Because structural changes require careful, high-level consideration, this issue should be prioritized for your next Quarterly Progress Meeting. If the structural dispute is causing an immediate operational bottleneck that cannot wait until the end of the quarter, the Integrator must schedule a separate, sixty-minute meeting outside of the Level 10 Meeting™ to get on the Same Page with the affected leaders.

By pushing structural redesigns out of the weekly pulse, you protect the high-tempo discipline of your Level 10 Meeting™ and ensure your weekly operational decisions are made quickly and cleanly.