Framework 3 of 5
A business that runs without you in every conversation
Operating Rhythm sets the management operating rhythm: the meetings, decisions and routines that keep the business moving without the MD in every conversation.
Signs you may need it
- Most decisions still end up on your desk.
- Managers pass decisions upwards that they could make themselves.
- Managers spend their days firefighting rather than managing.
- Problems reach you late, after they've grown.
- Nobody steps back from the day-to-day to look at what matters most.
The questions it answers
- Decisions
- Where are decisions actually made, and where should they be made?
- Escalation
- Which decisions reach the MD that could be made closer to the work?
- Management time
- Do managers have time to manage, or are they always firefighting?
- Stepping back
- Does leadership regularly step back to focus on what matters most?
Where it fits
- Draws on
- Priorities, and the Health Check evidence on decision-making and on stepping back from the day-to-day.
- Feeds into
- Performance Visibility. If the MD makes too many decisions, Organisation Effectiveness asks why: authority, structure, role design or habit.
