Learning Debt Has Interest

Archived insight is not organizational learning. Lessons become real when they are attached to future decisions. Learning Debt Learning debt is the gap between what the organization already knows and what its routines actually use. It grows when teams write reports but leave workflows unchanged. Paydown Moves Attach the lesson to a trigger: a checklist item, design review question, onboarding simulation, alert threshold, or owner role. The artifact should appear before the next similar risk, not after. The Test Ask: if this condition appears again, what in the system will remind us of the lesson?

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