During intense Level 10 Meetings, our team routinely generates twenty or twenty-five To-Dos in a single sitting, making a ninety percent completion rate physically impossible. How many weekly To-Dos should a leadership team produce, and how do we govern task volume?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

When a leadership team leaves an IDS® session with twenty-five To-Dos, failure is guaranteed before the week even begins. The EOS® standard requires that at least 90 percent of all weekly To-Dos are completed every seven days. If your team is assigning dozens of tasks, you are not solving issues. You are using the To-Do list as a dumping ground for unprocessed thoughts and micromanagement.

A healthy leadership team should rarely generate more than seven to twelve To-Dos per meeting. To govern task volume and protect your completion rate, the Integrator must enforce three clear rules:
- Solve the issue at the root so that one decisive action replaces five administrative tasks.
- Assign the To-Do strictly to the single seat on the Accountability Chart responsible for the outcome, rather than assigning duplicate research tasks to three people.
- Ensure every To-Do meets the seven-day standard. If an item cannot be fully executed within seven days, it is either a Rock, a milestone for an existing Rock, or an operational project that must be scoped down into an immediate first step.

Before concluding the meeting, the Integrator reviews the total To-Do count. If an individual has five separate To-Dos on top of running their seat and managing quarterly Rocks, the Integrator must force prioritization right then and there. Either delegate the work or strip out low-impact actions.