Meridian Creative House
Professional practice, creative services
Context
High autonomy had begun creating unclear ownership across client accounts.
Signal
Talented, independent teams were making decisions in parallel with little coordination, occasionally contradicting each other in front of clients.
Diagnosis
Leadership and communication scores were healthy, but decision clarity specifically was low, isolating the issue to ownership rather than trust or culture.
Intervention
A decision-rights framework and team operating agreements clarifying who decides what on each account.
Shift
Decision clarity rose sharply and instances of contradicting client-facing decisions dropped to near zero within the engagement.
Lesson
Autonomy and clarity aren't opposites. The most autonomous teams often need the clearest decision rights, not the fewest.
Engagement timeline
Before / after (illustrative)
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