Library/Leak 20

Commitments that outlived their reason

Standing obligations outside the core work: recurring vendor calls, networking groups, association roles, advisory seats, a partnership that no longer produces anything. Each was justified once. None is reviewed.

ExitEliminateMeetingsA–B · days to weeksContainer

How you know you have it

“What are you still doing because you always have, rather than because you decided to?”

What kind of leak it is

A time leak — it costs hours

How to measure it

duration × frequency × 52, per commitment

Annualized the same way everywhere: duration × frequency × people × 52.

Typical range — illustrative

moderate individually, meaningful in aggregate, and disproportionately damaging because they land mid-day and fragment it

An order of magnitude to prime your eye, not a statistic and not a claim about anyone's result. The only number that matters is the one you measure.

The move — Eliminate

Eliminate, reduce the cadence, or send someone else. Among the cheapest recoveries in the library: it costs a decision and nothing else.

Where it lands in a Time P&L

Meetings

How long a fix takes

A–B · days to weeks

What to do about it

Tools that fix this

No tool names this category on its own yet. The two below apply to all twenty.

And across everything

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