Your calendar is your strategy.

You don’t need a 47-slide strategic plan. You need to look at your Tuesday.

Because your real priorities aren’t on a post-it note or in your vision deck.

They are baked into the way your week unfolds.

Meetings. Check-ins. Messaging threads. All of it. That’s your strategy.

So what is it saying?

Pull up last week’s calendar. What does it actually tell you?

• Who gets your time? (Your team? Your boss? Someone else's team?)

• What gets recurring space? (One-on-ones? Fire drills?)

• Where are you just reacting?

The pattern reveals your operating system. It also reveals your blind spots.

A manager who “cares about team development” but spends 90% of the week firefighting?

That’s not development - that’s triage.

The good news?

You can adjust. Not perfectly. But enough.

Try this:

• Pick one thing you say that matters the most.

• Block real time for it this week.

• Protect that block like it’s your boss’s boss asking for it.

Repeat.

That’s strategy. Not what you say, but what you show up for.

Good Enough Tip: If your calendar doesn’t match your values, neither will your leadership.

Let your week tell the truth. Then let it tell a better one.