“Let’s follow up.”
What does this mean? Time-wise?
In an hour? End of day? Later this week? Next month?
What does a reasonable answer to that question tell you about your organisation?
Velocity is everything.
Note velocity, not speed. Activity does not equal progress.
The Eisenhower Matrix is used to help distinguish between tasks that are important, not important, urgent, and not urgent.
But if you’ve just been having a meeting about it, shouldn’t that prioritisation have already happened?
“Does this make the boat go faster?”
Evaluate every meeting, task and idea through this lens.
Aligns with our race to win?
Do it.
Does not?
Ditch it.
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