Post by The Exec Memo

Most meetings do not fail in the room. They fail afterwards. A decent conversation. A broad sense of agreement. Then three people leave with three different reads of what was actually decided. That is where the cost shows up. Follow-up meetings that should not be needed. Work starting before the call is clear. Side conversations to patch over what the meeting did not settle. Teams moving, but not in the same direction. A calm room can still be misaligned. Real alignment is simpler than people make it, and harder. What was decided. What trade-off was accepted. Who owns the call. What happens next. If those four things are not clear, the meeting was probably useful. It was not yet clean. That gap is expensive. It slows delivery. It muddies accountability. It creates drag around decisions that should already be moving. The Exec Memo is built for that gap. When a call matters commercially and the shape of it is starting to blur, the job is to make it clear enough to act on. Decision clarity is cheaper than rework. theexecmemo.co.uk #DecisionMaking #Leadership #B2BSaaS