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operating-cadence is agent-read markdown (skill) from cbrock84/headcount: Designs the rhythm an organization runs on — which reviews happen weekly, monthly and quarterly, what each one decides, who owns the numbers presented, and how a signal at the front line reaches the people who can act on it. Use this to set up a management operating system, fix a meeting calendar that produces no decisions, work out where a recurring problem keeps failing to surface, or cut a review structure that has grown past what it informs..

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# Operating cadence

Every organization has a cadence. Most have one that accumulated — a meeting added after each
incident, none ever removed — rather than one that was designed. The symptom is familiar: full
calendars, thorough reporting, and decisions that still take six weeks.

## Give every recurring meeting a decision it exists to make

A review that only shares information is a document pretending to be a meeting. Before a meeting
recurs, answer three questions: what decision does this forum make, who in the room can make it,
and what would have to be true for the answer to be no.

If a forum has made no decision in a quarter, either it is the wrong forum or the decision is being
made elsewhere. Both are worth knowing.

## Separate the three time horizons, and do not let them merge

- **Weekly — execution.** What is off track, what is blocking it, who is unblocking it by when.
  Short, operational, no strategy. Fifteen items at five minutes each, not five at fifteen.
- **Monthly — performance.** Results against plan, with the variance explained by a driver rather
  than restated. This is where a trend gets caught while it is still cheap.
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cbrock84/headcount · 1,664 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

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