Follow-Through Tax Calculator - Productivity Pit Stop

Follow-Through Tax Calculator

Discover what poor follow-through is costing your team's execution capacity

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Follow-Through Reality Check

Research* shows 25-50% of meeting time produces no lasting result:

Decisions made in meetings that quietly disappear
Actions allocated but never followed through
The same issues on the agenda week after week
Other departments waiting on commitments that drift

*Sources:

- Meeting follow-through: McKinsey Global Institute, collaboration and productivity research

- Meeting effectiveness: Harvard Business Review, "Stop the Meeting Madness" (updated 2024)

- Productive meetings: Bain and Company, "The Time-Starved Executive" study

Your meetings may be perfectly run. But when you leave the room - how much of what was decided actually happens?

About half the time Most things get done Honestly, less than half happens Let me enter my own estimate

What percentage of meeting decisions actually get implemented?

Your Follow-Through Tax

Monthly Capacity Lost to Follow-Through Gaps

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0 hours per year

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)

Full-time people worth of capacity lost annually

This represents 0% of your team's capacity lost to follow-through gaps that produce no lasting result

And this does not include open loops never resolved, decisions made but never implemented, or the trust lost with other departments waiting on you.

What you can do this week

The number above is an estimate. Here is how to measure your own reality --- and start shifting it.

Pick one meeting from last week. Just one. Write down every decision or action that came out of it — as best you can remember.

Check each one. Was it done? Partially done? Not started? Not even remembered? Be honest --- this is for you, not for anyone else.

Count the gaps. That ratio --- completed versus agreed — is your team's real follow-through rate. Not an estimate. Your actual number.

Name it in your next meeting. Not as blame — as data. "We agreed six things last week. Three happened. Let's talk about why." That conversation is where everything can change.

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