What happens if a key leadership team member fails to complete their quarterly homework or prep work before we walk into a session room?

Showing up to a quarterly or annual session unprepared is not an administrative oversight. It is a direct signal of how that leader treats organizational accountability.

Between sessions, leadership team members have clear assignments. They must close out their Rocks, prepare their individual Rock proposals for the upcoming ninety days, update their Scorecard metrics, and bring concrete issues to populate the Issues List. If an executive walks into the session without this preparation, they drain the momentum of the entire room.

When this happens, we call it out in the first thirty minutes during the Good News and Scorecard review. We do not gloss over it to keep people comfortable. We immediately identify why the homework was skipped. If the failure stemmed from legitimate operational triage, that goes straight to the Issues List for IDS. If it stemmed from poor personal discipline, apathy, or lack of capacity, that behavior is examined openly against our Core Values.

We will not cancel or postpone the session. The unprepared leader will be forced to complete their thinking live, in front of their peers, which is uncomfortable and inherently inefficient. It exposes gaps in their execution habits immediately.

If an executive repeatedly fails to show up prepared across multiple sessions, it ceases to be a time management problem. It becomes a seat issue on the Accountability Chart. We resolve it by evaluating whether that person truly possesses the GWC to occupy a senior leadership seat.

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