Overview
Most companies have too many meetings and too few decisions. The meetings exist because someone once needed to discuss something, and the recurring invite was never cancelled. The result is a calendar that consumes 40–60% of senior leaders' time, produces few decisions, and creates the illusion of coordination without the substance of it.
The Meeting Culture & Operating Cadence Design Prompt builds a meeting architecture from the decisions that need to be made: which decisions require synchronous discussion, at what frequency, with whom, and in what format. Every meeting in the cadence has a defined purpose, a fixed agenda, and a clear owner — and every meeting that does not meet those criteria is eliminated.
What you get: - Meeting audit: the current meeting load and what each meeting actually produces - Decision mapping: which decisions require meetings and which don't - Operating cadence design: the full meeting architecture for a team or company - Meeting format templates: the agenda structure for each meeting type - Decision documentation protocol: how to capture and distribute decisions - Async-first protocol: the decisions that should never become meetings - Meeting health metrics: how to measure whether the cadence is working
Built for: founders, COOs, and team leads who want a meeting culture that produces decisions — not one that produces the feeling of productivity without the substance.