Between our quarterly sessions, how does our team maintain operational accountability when priorities start drifting, and what should we do if a critical Rock is obviously failing midway through the quarter?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

The ninety-day cycle between sessions is where your business actually transforms. The quarterly session creates alignment, but the weekly Level 10 Meeting maintains the traction. If priorities drift or execution slips, it usually means your team is treating Rocks as a passive checklist rather than an active commitment, or your meeting pulse has gone soft.

Every week, your leadership team gathers for ninety minutes to review your Scorecard, check Rock statuses, and run IDS on operational bottlenecks. In this meeting, a Rock is either on track or off track. There is no middle ground. If a Rock goes off track midway through the quarter, you do not wait for our next session to talk about it. You drop it down to the Issues List immediately and solve it as a team.

When a Rock is genuinely failing, you have three options during IDS:
- Reallocate resources or assign additional support to remove the roadblock.
- Adjust the scope if external conditions changed, while preserving the core deliverable.
- Acknowledge that the Rock is dead, document the reason why, and refocus capacity on high-impact priorities.

What you never do is change the milestone to make yourselves look good. If a Rock fails, own it. We review completion rates at our next quarterly session. If your team hits eighty percent of your Rocks each quarter, your company is executing at an elite level. Between sessions, rely on your weekly meeting discipline and your Integrator to keep execution tight.