{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Culture Focused Practice","title":"The V/I Table: Meetings are Feedback Systems","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2888,"description":"In this episode of Culture Focused Practice, Dr. Tara Vossenkemper sits down with her integrator, Taylor, to unpack a simple idea that has surprisingly big implications for leadership: your meetings are feedback systems. \nSure, the agenda gives you data. Your scorecards, rocks, metrics, and issues all tell you something about your business. But Tara argues that the meeting itself is giving you just as much information. What keeps showing up? What never gets discussed? Where does the energy in the room shift? What feels surprisingly hard to solve?\nTogether, Tara and Taylor explore why recurring issues often aren't recurring at all—they're symptoms of something deeper. They talk about how unclear ownership, broken processes, accountability gaps, and even missing seats on the accountability chart can keep the same problems resurfacing week after week.\nThey also dive into something many leadership teams overlook: emotions. Not because meetings should become therapy sessions, but because frustration, resistance, urgency, avoidance, and even boredom are all valuable data. Sometimes the emotional tone of a meeting isn't getting in the way of solving the problem—it is the clue that helps you find the real problem.\nUsing a staffing scenario, they walk through how visionary and integrator perspectives complement one another, how to distinguish isolated issues from organizational patterns, and why the best leadership teams don't just solve problems—they get better at diagnosing them.\nIf you've ever walked out of a leadership meeting thinking, Didn't we already talk about this?, this episode is for you.\nTimestamps\n00:00 Why Meetings Matter\n01:11 Meetings as Feedback Systems\n01:57 Root Causes, Not Symptoms\n05:05 Why Issues Keep Coming Back\n07:58 Ownership and Accountability\n10:40 What Gets Avoided\n12:18 Reading the Emotional Tone\n15:45 Why Emotions Are Data\n25:18 A Staffing Scenario\n26:33 Visionary vs. Integrator Perspectives\n29:11 Diagnosing the Real Problem\n30:14 Right...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/P5uMnMVyJYchWaP149qc06GsiCMNhe3xYghlUoWev1I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYjgx/OWI3ZGNiMDdlYTM0/ZGMyYTVhNmZjNzFl/MWRkMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}