Designing Cadence: How CEOs Reclaim Time for Real Work

About this episode

This episode discusses how CEOs can improve their productivity by implementing 'Hot & Cool Weeks' to manage their meeting cadence effectively.

Stop Drowning in Meetings! Fix Your Cadence with "Hot & Cool Weeks". Most leaders think the problem is their meetings. It isn’t. The problem is cadence. Weekly rhythms fill calendars with recurring syncs, updates, and reviews, leaving no space for the deep, strategic thinking that real leadership demands. Here’s the fix: Hot and Cool Weeks. Hot weeks: meeting-heavy by design. All your recurring leadership meetings, one-to-ones, and cross-team forums happen here. Purpose: alignment and dec...

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Host: Mr Joe

Topics covered

• meetings
• cadence
• leadership
• time management
• strategic thinking

Keywords

• meetings
• cadence
• leadership
• Hot Weeks
• Cool Weeks
• time management
• strategic thinking

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