Meeting Burden Assessment · one of the patterns

Disruptive

Meetings significantly fragment your week and disrupt deeper work.

At this stage, meetings often exist to resolve uncertainty elsewhere in the system. Cancelling them without addressing that uncertainty will just move it.

Relief comes from clarifying ownership and decision rights — not from running more efficient meetings.

Is this you?

Meetings are not the problem — they're where unresolved structure shows up.

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