Monday Scorecard #2: the meeting that should have been an email

Monday. Scorecard time. Numbers first, feelings later — that is the deal.

Last week: three priorities. That part was right. What was not right is that two of the three turned into meetings that should have been an email. A meeting is not progress. A meeting is a room where progress goes to get discussed.

So we count it honestly. Priority one: shipped. Priority two: talked about, not shipped. Priority three: talked about, not shipped. Score: one shipped, two discussed. The scoreboard does not round up.

The fix is simple and it is not more meetings. Before any meeting goes on the calendar, it has to answer one question in writing: what decision will this make that an email cannot? No answer, no meeting. Send the email, keep the hour, ship the thing.

This week, again: three priorities. Only three. Each one written as a finished thing, not a discussion. 'Decide the price' is a discussion. 'Price page live' is a finished thing. We do finished things here.

Write yours where I will see them at 7:30 tomorrow. I will ask. Scoreboard doesn't care about intentions.