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Beyond the Calendar

A weekly series about the work behind the work: how organizations decide, meet, measure and change. New pieces every Tuesday on LinkedIn, starting October 20, 2026.

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From the studio.

Studio note · October 14, 2026

A meeting is not a decision record.

Five fields that give your team a shared record of what it agreed to do, and a small pilot to start using them.

What the series covers

Practical ideas you can use on Monday.

Operating cadence

The weekly and monthly rhythms that keep a team aligned without filling every calendar.

Decisions and data

Why a dashboard is not a decision, what makes a KPI trustworthy, and how decision logs build institutional memory.

AI and change

AI adoption as change management: readiness, governance, and knowing when not to automate.

Strategy and capacity

Strategy has a capacity limit. How to choose what to stop when something new comes in.

Stakeholder alignment

The quiet work of getting people to the same decision, and keeping them there.

Small teams

Operating ideas scaled down for lean teams, where every system has to earn its keep.

Start with a conversation

Thirty minutes to find out whether the problem is the plan or the system.

A free fit call. No prep needed, no pitch deck. If it isn't a fit, you'll leave with a clearer read on what to fix first.

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