Sensemaking Is The New Bottleneck
- Melody Hazen

- Feb 10
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 6
One of the most disruptive failure patterns I see: we’ve normalized low accountability for sensemaking.
People attend, skim, and react - but don’t ingest, synthesize, or come prepared to debate tradeoffs.
That pushes decisions upward, slows execution, and increases rework.
The fix is part people standard, part knowledge infrastructure: make “show up with a point of view” the norm, and build the systems that make it possible.
When was the last time you did a critical assessment of your knowledge systems? If you're trying to optimize for efficiency, there is no way around it.




