Most meetings don’t start badly: People show up on time, there is an agenda, everyone wants to move something forward. And yet, an hour later, there’s a strange feeling in the room: We talked a lot — but did we actually decide anything? Sometimes we leave with a list of actions. Sometimes with more questions. Sometimes with quiet frustration. And very often, what happened is surprisingly simple: We mixed up the problem, the options, and the solution. When everything happens a