When progress is unclear, teams add meetings. It feels logical. More communication should fix confusion. In practice, it often makes things worse. Meetings fill the calendar, reduce time for deep work, and create the illusion of alignment. The real issue is usually visibility. People meet because they cannot see what is happening. If you make work visible, meetings shrink naturally. Owners can update status in one place. Blockers can be raised early. Decisions can be recorded once instead of repeated. If you are stuck in urgent churn, read Why Everything Feels Urgent but Nothing Moves. If you want to understand the underlying failure mode, read Execution Debt: The Thing No One Tracks. For the operating layer, read What a Brand Operating System Is.
