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Weekly CEO Update
Standing weekly written update from the CEO to the leadership team — five sections, same shape every week.
When to use this
Comment-friendly Google Doc that the leadership team can read in 5 minutes and the CEO can write in 30. The same five sections every week make trend-watching easy.
The template
# Weekly CEO Update — [Week commencing DD Mon YYYY] ## 1. Headline of the week > One sentence. If you read nothing else, read this. ## 2. What I'm watching - [Metric / trend] - [Customer / market signal] - [Internal indicator] ## 3. Where I spent time this week - [Big thing] - [Big thing] - [Big thing] - (Anything to stop / start / continue based on the above?) ## 4. Decisions made / changed - [Decision] — why - [Decision] — why ## 5. What I need from you - [Specific person/team]: [specific ask], by [when]