[codingdave]

That sounds even more dysfunctional. Sure, you save meeting time, but why not just go one step further and put a discussion thread on each topic, and skip the meeting entirely. Because if it works as you describe, people are voluntarily siloing themselves off by skipping other meeting blocks, and you lose the one benefit such meetings have, which is to make sure the entire leadership team knows what is going on and can share their differing perspectives with each other.

[jedberg]

Because the whole leadership doesn’t need to discuss everything. The memo informs everyone and then if you have an opinion you come in for the real-time discussion.

If you don’t have an opinion then you find out what happened with the follow up email/memo.