Nobody remembers who promised what anymore.
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Generative Relationships STAR reveals that this exact pattern keeps repeating — and why.
For example: Three weeks after the meeting, someone asks: "who was supposed to do that again?" Nobody's quite sure anymore — and it turns out this isn't the first time agreements have quietly evaporated like this.
Liberating Structures for this situation:
Min Specs
Min Specs locks in the agreement at the moment itself, in a form that can't be reinterpreted afterward: a short, written list of what minimally needs to happen, and by whom.
That paper trail is exactly what was missing here — a spoken agreement that "sounded about right" ends up remembered differently by everyone, three weeks later.
Generative Relationships STAR
Generative Relationships STAR goes a level deeper than this one incident: the team rates itself on four axes, including how well they're in tune with each other (Tuning) and how much they undertake together (Action).
A team that scores low on those axes recognizes the pattern here: not one forgotten agreement, but a team that structurally doesn't tune in enough to know who's carrying what. That makes the problem discussable at the level where it actually lives, not just at the level of this one slip-up.
No certification, no lengthy prep — read the steps and try it at your next meeting.
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