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I’ve worked on building these systems for our company. I don’t think they’re perfect by any means, but once you have more than about 20 people their presence is better than their absence, especially at the first three levels in the hierarchy (where there is broad commonality in contributions and expectations at the first two levels, with individual variation of course).

When people (often terrible leaders) try to distill the framework into a checklist of activities, things tend to go quite badly.