What problem does it solve?
As companies scale from 20 to 300+ people, meetings multiply while decisions slow down, alignment degrades, and leadership time disappears into status updates. This Skill provides a structured operating cadence covering meeting architecture, metric reporting, quarterly planning, and decision authority so organizations keep making fast decisions as they grow.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Five-Level Meeting Architecture: Defines daily standups, weekly functional reviews, weekly all-hands, bi-weekly leadership alignment, and quarterly planning with formats, durations, and anti-patterns for each.
- Weekly Metric Reporting: Provides a repeatable dashboard format with 8-12 metrics, traffic-light status, trend arrows, and escalation rules for RED items.
- Quarterly Planning Cycle: Lays out a 3-week process (retrospective, priority setting, OKR cascade) producing 3-5 priorities with owners and metrics.
- Decision Authority Matrix: Distinguishes Type 1 (irreversible) from Type 2 (reversible) decisions and assigns clear decision rights and timelines.
- Use Case: A 120-person startup where leadership spends all week in meetings but decisions stall. Use this Skill to redesign the meeting structure, install a weekly metric dashboard, and assign decision owners per decision type.
Quick Start
Use the gtm-operating-cadence skill to design a meeting and reporting structure for my 80-person company where decisions are slow and alignment is breaking down.
