🌟 While we no longer record the Q&A discussions during our Leadership Strategy Sessions, we continue to record the opening teaching. Enjoy a special preview of what I shared about navigating October’s math problem. If you want to see the complete teaching and take part in upcoming sessions, consider upgrading to join us live next month.

What makes October uniquely challenging isn’t a motivation problem — it’s a math problem.

When you line up your strategic projects against your team’s actual capacity, the numbers don’t work. Even at 100% capacity, even with perfect alignment, there’s still too much. As I’ve said on the personal productivity side, I’ll say on the team side:

You cannot put 14 units of work into a 10-unit bag.

When you have a math problem, you need to solve it with math.

Here’s how you can help your team protect what matters most:

Don’t get project locked. Just because you committed to something in May doesn’t mean it’s still the highest-impact work in October. Ask: given where we are today, against our key results, what efforts make the most sense to prioritize now?

Give your team permission to release. Without explicit permission, teams keep working on what you asked for months ago, even when it’s no longer the right priority.

Adjust your conversation cadence. You don’t have time for drift in October. More frequent check-ins aren’t micromanaging but instead...

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