Book the Meeting Before You Need It

Scheduling delays in large organizations can turn quick decisions into multi-week waits, and cross-team operational alignment often dies in Slack threads. A proposed fix is to book a recurring, short daily time block reserved exclusively for as-needed cross-functional operational issues, canceled when unneeded. Success depends on a senior person owning the meeting, resisting pressure to move it async, and killing it once a team becomes operationally autonomous enough that it's never triggered.