Ah okay I’ll elaborate. The three things are assumed to be outside of regular daily needs, hence the week. They’re also more like goals than tasks. “Write the POV” or “Onboard the new director.” Because you’re in 7 meetings I’m sure you’re familiar with how impossible it is to plan a week when you’re running a team and responsible for putting out any fires. Now I’m my case, I’m in a freaky deaky position of straddling both being an individual contributor but also leadership by reputation. A situation like this can be ideal but is also referred to as a “shit filter” so it can be real easy to let a program run me ragged & forget about the other role because they exist at different depths and time scales, y’know?
A standard work day for me (a mean average, every day is different, every project is different) is generally 3 team meetings, a block or two of heads down time, with lots of text chatter. I try to ignore my email. But a week also involves a company meeting or two, a discipline meeting or two, some kind of fun thing i always miss, and a compliance type thing - timesheets, expenses, stupid corporate ethics training thingies.
So the “three things” are a way to allow for flexibility to adapt, still get important stuff done, and not get mad at your team for having issues when you wanted to research analogues for inspiration or whatever. It gives you some simplicity to focus and some grace to do ya jorb
