Yep. Productivity frameworks can be helpful in a context with people who are smart enough to process the central insights and genuinely interested in playing a

Yep. Productivity frameworks can be helpful in a context with people who are smart enough to process the central insights and genuinely interested in playing a longer game than an immediate problem or narrow personal/career agenda. But in some hands, the important insights either don't get absorbed, or they're wielded selectively to poor effect. Bad decisions can actually be justified with situational appeal to some guiding principle -- but when it cuts the other direction, the principle gets played down and the other side of any tension present gets played up.