When leaders do not have visibility, they schedule meetings.
Then more meetings.
Then recurring meetings.
Then emergency meetings.
Then follow-up meetings.
Soon everyone is spending half their week talking about work instead of doing work.
The irony is that organizations often create more meetings because they lack information.
And then create even less information because everyone is stuck in meetings.
Many organizations are drowning in communication and starving for clarity.
A meeting should be a decision-making tool.
Not a visibility tool.
If leadership requires constant meetings to understand what is happening, the organization has a visibility problem.
And visibility problems eventually become execution problems.
The goal should not be more meetings.
The goal should be fewer surprises.
