1️⃣ The CEO calendar is part of the operating model Bain found that only 41% of surveyed CEOs protect time for deep work. Routine operations keep displacing the decisions only the CEO can make.
💡 Why it matters Delegation fails when the CEO remains the default escalation path. The calendar shows whether decision rights work below the top.
☕ Coffee talk Which meeting on Monday exists because someone below the CEO still cannot make the call?
2️⃣ Give founder communication a job Lenny’s Newsletter maps founder communication to three audience outcomes: identification, trust or belief in a future. Each needs different messages and channels.
💡 Why it matters Posting more is not a strategy. Decide whose behaviour should change, then choose the story, format and cadence that serve it.
☕ Coffee talk Does your founder’s latest post help a customer decide, or just prove the founder was online?
3️⃣ Focus is credible only when something good gets cut MIT Sloan is ending its Management Review after nearly 70 years to centralise communications, despite the publication’s reputation and a public backlash.
💡 Why it matters Strategic focus is tested on respected activities, not obvious failures. Keeping every good asset is how priorities become slogans.
☕ Coffee talk Which admired programme survives in your company because nobody wants their name on the closure note?