EPISODE 342

Your Leadership Team Meeting Has One Job—And It’s Not What You Think

Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:
  • If the only reason you’re doing leadership team meetings is because you have to, you’re better off not doing them at all.
  • Your leadership team meetings have only ONE job: To surface and solve any threats to your 100% vision. That’s it. 
  • A new, fancy agenda or a refined set of norms can’t save your boring, unproductive meetings. 
  • If you aren’t solving issues in your meetings, you’re just adding more stuff to your to do list after the meeting is over. 
  • When the team doesn’t solve the problem together, you inherit it by default.

Most leadership team meetings are stuck in a loop—polite updates, recycled problems, and a slow drain of energy that leaves everyone wondering why nothing ever truly moves.

In this episode, I unpack why that pain exists, why the usual fixes never fix it, and what becomes possible when you redesign your meetings around purpose instead of compliance. 

In this episode, I unpack the deeper reason why those meetings feel so draining: they’re built on an operating system that rewards activity instead of alignment. Then I offer a radically different lens: a leadership team meeting has one job—to surface and solve threats to your vision.

When you shift the purpose, the entire meeting changes. If your team gatherings feel heavy, repetitive, or disconnected from the work that actually matters, this episode will show you what’s possible when you run your meetings #LikeABuilder

Check out these highlights:
  • Why leadership team meetings feel draining even when everyone is “doing their part,” and the hidden design flaw that keeps them stuck in repetitive loops.
  • How the leadership operating system rewards activity instead of alignment, and why that single mistake derails even the most well-intentioned teams.
  • Why the usual fixes—new agendas, tighter norms, better facilitation—never solve the real problem, and often make meetings feel heavier rather than clearer.
  • The one job a leadership team meeting actually has: to surface and solve threats to your vision, and why that simple purpose changes the entire experience of the meeting.
  • What becomes possible when you redesign your meetings around purpose instead of compliance, including lighter conversations, faster decisions, and real movement toward your 100% Vision #LikeABuilder.
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