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CB.7:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

MisuseRepair
Appoint the most visible member and assume they reach everyone.Recover the relationships relevant to the missing contribution and include the affected group’s account.
Give a title without access or a usable decision boundary.Obtain the specific enabling condition and establish the decision right through its proper source.
Treat an enthusiastic volunteer as permanently available.Agree the burden and review point; change the promise when provision becomes insufficient.
Supply a large playbook while the difficult action remains unexplained.Develop that action around a representative episode and feedback.
Let the founder rescue every trial of a successor.Let the prepared successor perform while retaining the support the role actually needs.
Centralise every exception under the name of consistency.State the common commitment and give local organisers the choices and means compatible with it.
Give every participant several observation duties and no time to confer.Select fewer voluntary tasks, provide conference time and a receiving decision, or use a smaller individual contribution.
Interpret an unsuitable practice as a communication failure.Return the substantive defect to the practice or offer owner.