10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. – power meeting

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is a fan and avid practitioner of making the most important decisions in the morning. The logic behind this is simple. He believes that your energy and ability to think clearly are at their highest in the morning before you naturally get tired in the afternoon as the day draws to an end.

As Bezos puts it:

By following this logic, this idea of a "power meeting" is even more powerful on a Monday, as it's the start of the week. It's also great because most organizations will have, at any one time, a mixture of ongoing projects and operations.

At this time, both in the day and the week, there should be a natural confluence of these cross-functional teams, including the people who make up those teams. You'll find that it's collectively more productive to have both groups make their key decisions at around the same time so that they are not always waiting on each other.