When our business enters a busy season or when we are behind on our current quarterly Rocks, it is tempting to postpone our scheduled session with you. Why do you insist on maintaining the strict ninety day cadence, and what happens if we try to delay a session?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The temptation to delay a quarterly session when you are busy or behind on your Rocks is a classic symptom of operational drift. It is precisely when your business is chaotic and your goals are slipping that you need to stop, step back, and align your team.

Human beings operate in ninety day cycles. Around the ninety day mark, focus begins to blur, communication starts to break down, and people naturally lose alignment. We call this the ninety day world. If you delay your session by even a few weeks, that lack of alignment compounds, and your team will quickly fall back into firefighting mode.

During our quarterly sessions, we do not spend the day celebrating how perfect everything is. We spend it identifying and solving the real issues that are preventing you from hitting your goals. If you are behind on your Rocks, we use our IDS® time to get to the root cause of why they were missed and make the necessary course corrections.

Maintaining a non negotiable quarterly cadence forces a level of discipline that is critical for scaling. It teaches your team that execution is not optional, regardless of how busy the business gets. We schedule our quarterly sessions and two day annuals up to a year in advance to ensure they remain absolute priorities on everyone's calendar.