Notes from teams who moved the meeting.

We cut a ninety-minute status meeting in half by deciding, in advance, which five questions the room was allowed to argue about.

Most activation dashboards answer “how many”. The useful version answers “which accounts, and what should we do about them on Thursday”.

Not every number deserves meeting time. These five reliably start the argument that leads somewhere.

Small numbers do not mean small decisions. At forty accounts you can still name every one of them, and that is the advantage.

A pipeline total is a photograph. What a team needs on Monday is the difference between two photographs.

Thirty first reviews, one recurring failure: the agenda arrived after the meeting started.