Every decision waits for Thursday. The average one waits five days.

Weekly decision meetings feel disciplined. The arithmetic of what happens between them is rarely examined, and it is usually worse than it looks.

By Steve 4 min read
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A weekly leadership meeting looks like good governance. Decisions get made in one place, with the right people present, on the record. The alternative, decisions taken in corridors and inboxes, looks obviously worse. But a weekly meeting is a queue with a service window that opens once every 168 hours. And the cost of that queue is almost never counted, because it shows up as delay spread thinly across other people’s work rather than as a line item anywhere. The arithmetic of a weekly window If decisions arrive at random…

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