When things aren’t going well in organizations, our natural tendency is to add more.

More meetings, more tasks, more processes, more milestones, more things to check off. But is that really the source of the problem?

Our time and attention are increasingly scarce.

Instead, we could start by making a list of all the things we could stop doing. Things that we haven’t stopped to question why we are even doing in the first place. Behaviours and ways of thinking that continue to be accepted.

If culture isn’t great or leadership is poor, will a forced hour-long meeting sharing departmental updates make it any better? In order to get different results, we need to think differently about what we are doing.

Adding more, doing more, isn’t always the answer.