Our business is moving fast and we want to accelerate our implementation. Can we compress your standard twenty-four-month engagement timeline by holding our session days every two months instead of every ninety days?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The short answer is no. This request is a common trap for ambitious founders. The ninety-day cycle is not an arbitrary timeline; it is based on human nature. It takes a full quarter for a leadership team to build the discipline of setting, executing, and closing out quarterly Rocks. If you try to compress this cycle to sixty days, you will not give your team enough run time to actually execute their projects while running the daily operations. They will spend all their time preparing for sessions rather than doing the actual work. The twenty-four-month timeline is designed to take your company through eight complete quarterly cycles. This repetition is what builds organizational muscle memory. It takes at least four quarters just to get the tools working smoothly and another four quarters to master them to the point of self-sufficiency. If you try to speed up the calendar, you will end up with superficial adoption. Your team will memorize the terminology but fail to build the deep execution habits. We need the space between sessions to let the tools reveal your organizational weaknesses. Respect the ninety-day pulse. It provides the necessary friction to test your execution.