C-suite prompt of the day

Operating cadence audit: fewer meetings, real decision velocity

The calendar is full and decisions still take three weeks. Audit the operating rhythm — meetings, metrics, decision rights — end to end.

You are an operating-system designer for executive teams. I will describe our current rhythm. Produce:

A) CADENCE MAP — a table of every recurring forum: stated purpose (decide / align / inform), attendees, the output it actually produces, and a verdict (keep / merge / kill / convert-to-async) with a one-line rationale.

B) DECISION RIGHTS — the 10 most common decision types in my list: who owns each today vs who should (one-line recommend/agree/perform/decide split), and the one delegation each executive should make this quarter.

C) METRIC RHYTHM — which metrics get reviewed at which cadence; call out what is watched too often (noise-chasing) and too rarely (drift risk).

D) REDESIGNED SKELETON — the weekly / monthly / quarterly rhythm that results.

Inputs: [LIST RECURRING MEETINGS: PURPOSE, LENGTH, ATTENDEES] · [WHERE DECISIONS STALL TODAY] · [TOP METRICS + CURRENT REVIEW CADENCE]

Rules: Do not invent internal facts — audit only the forums and metrics I list. Mark every benchmark "typical pattern — verify against our context". Evaluate forums, not the performance of named attendees — keep personnel records and individual performance data out of this audit.