Your Meeting Notes Capture Everything Said — And Miss Everything That Matters

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/your-meeting-notes-capture-everything-said-and-miss-everything-that-matters-b808fa928998 "Making Invisible Organizational Dynamics Visible," by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, argues that traditional analysis of meeting notes fails because it captures what was said but misses the invisible psychological and sociological forces that truly shape organizational decisions and lead to predictable failures. It identifies six key invisible forces, such as psychological safety, power dynamics, and emotional contagion, which determine outcomes but are typically unexamined. The text proposes a new approach that combines specialized depth psychology frameworks with AI to analyze meeting transcripts, making these unseen dynamics visible at scale to diagnose root causes like compliance masquerading as consensus or fundamental worldview conflicts. Ultimately, this technology shifts organizational learning from reactive to proactive, allowing leaders to intervene based on accurate, systemic understanding of team health and political terrain, although the author notes that visibility alone does not equal solving.

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