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Your cost of inaction

What does one recurring decision pattern cost you?
Make the time visible. Name the commitments it holds back.

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ESTIMATED ANNUAL COST—
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Estimated annual cost
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Time absorbed per year
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Based on 52 comparable weeks

Start with your weekly hours and annual cost, or enter a delayed commitment and its cost.

Annual time cost—
Delay costs: next 12 months—

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01

Describe the pattern

Which recurring approval, reopened decision or follow-up takes up most of your time?

Make the pattern clearer Optional · from the masterclass

A place to investigate, not a diagnostic score.

02

Put a value on your time

A practical proxy for the time this pattern absorbs.

Enter the annual company cost, not the net salary itself. If using the workshop proxy, calculate your annual net salary × 1.36 first. Use the actual employer cost if known; this multiplier is only an estimate.

Hourly cost proxy = annual cost ÷ annual working hours— / h

Defaults: 2,000 hours, 52 weeks and EUR. Adjust to your situation. Changing currency changes labels only, not amounts.

03

Add up last week’s repeated work

How many hours did you spend on work that could have been handled elsewhere?

Routine requests reaching you again
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Revisiting what was already agreed
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Checking, following up, unblocking
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Total per week——

Fill only the categories that apply. Count each hour once. Blank categories do not block the totals. Use whole-hour estimates.

Check your assumptions Optional · keep uncertainty visible
04

Delayed commitments

Which commitments are delayed by this pattern, and what does each delay cost?

Enter only additional costs you expect within the next 12 months and can reasonably connect to this pattern. Count a one-off loss once. Exclude time already counted above and any loss already included in another row.

Use as many rows as you need.

Total delay cost for the next 12 months—

Each complete row is included in the annual estimate. Timing notes are optional.

Timing notes Optional · no period is required to calculate
05

What does the number make visible?

Not every consequence needs a price. Keep the hours and commitments even when a money estimate is uncertain.

Explore the wider cost Optional · from the masterclass
Turn the estimate into a seven-day test Optional · one decision, one change
How the estimate works
  1. Hourly cost = annual company cost ÷ annual working hours.
  2. Weekly time cost = sum of entered weekly hours × hourly cost.
  3. Annual time cost = weekly time cost × comparable working weeks.
  4. Annual estimate = annual time cost + additional delay costs expected within the next 12 months.

The two components remain visible separately. The masterclass cautions against adding costs from mismatched periods. This canvas combines them only after asking you to place delay costs within the next 12 months and exclude overlap. A deferred invoice is not automatically lost revenue; use the actual additional cost or lost margin you can support.

Blank rows are ignored. A delay needs a description and a valid amount to enter the total. You can keep an unpriced commitment without inventing a number. Whole numbers are displayed; calculations use the unrounded hourly rate. Rounded components may differ from their displayed sum by 1.

This is an estimate of one pattern, not a company-wide diagnosis, a verified financial loss or a promise of savings. No return on investment is implied. Questions are adapted from the Executive Control Reset Masterclass v1.9.

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