The Operating Meeting Most Companies Need

The single highest-leverage change a CEO can make in the first month is to redesign the executive operating meeting.

What it looks like

Ninety minutes, weekly, fixed agenda
Each owner reports against a single page of metrics they wrote
Decisions logged in writing
Blockers escalated within twenty-four hours

What it removes

The standing update meeting
The pre-meeting to align before the real meeting
The function-by-function rotation that nobody listens to

What it produces

A weekly cadence of decisions, owned in writing, that the rest of the company can plan around. Most companies discover after one quarter that they did not need the other meetings at all.

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