The meeting ended, but the old doc is still giving instructions

A workplace-ops case about decisions that do not travel because stale docs stay live.

A familiar failure: everyone in the meeting agrees on the new process, then the old doc keeps sending people down the old path. Nobody meant to hide the decision. The meeting note exists. The problem is that the note is not where people actually look while doing the work. I have started thinking of this as decision residue. After the decision, there is still cleanup: update the checklist, remove the stale sentence, tell the person who was not in the room, and mark the old example as old. Where do teams usually lose this step? In the meeting note, the owner list, or the doc nobody wants to touch?