You meet constantly. Nothing changes.

The calendar is full of them. The weekly leadership meeting, the standup, the catch-up, the one that exists because two people needed to talk and invited nine. Everybody leaves agreeable. Nobody leaves with anything. Two weeks later the same subject comes back and the room works through it again from the beginning, because it was never actually decided the first time.

Meetings drift toward whatever is safe to discuss. The real issue usually has a name attached to it, and a room with no agreed way of handling that will spend its time on updates instead. Reporting feels productive. It costs nothing, it offends nobody, and it fills the hour comfortably. So the hour gets filled and the issue survives another week.

Price the room honestly. Every senior person in the company, every week, plus the time on either side of it that nobody counts. That is a standing weekly cost, and it appears nowhere in the business as one. What it buys is a shared feeling that the matter is being handled.

The instinct is to have fewer meetings. That usually makes it worse. The discussion does not disappear, it relocates into hallways and direct messages where no decision can be recorded and nobody has to be present for the hard half of it. The problem is not frequency. It is that nothing in the room forces an issue to be named, argued once and closed.