The board pack runs 38 pages. Three numbers would have changed a decision.

Most management reporting grows by addition and never by subtraction: which is why the pack gets longer as it gets less useful.

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Ask a management team what their monthly pack is for and you will usually get an answer about visibility. Ask which page changed a decision in the last six months and the room goes quiet. Somewhere between those two answers sits a real cost: a document that takes two or three people a week to produce, arrives after the window in which it could have mattered, and is read for reassurance rather than for choice. The problem is rarely that the numbers are wrong. It is that reporting accretes. Every…

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