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Meetings are toxic. They drive low morale and a feeling of running in place. Pageantry over progress. Here’s a fresh approach to scheduling and maximizing work: https://fnd.news/3RucPno I recently heard a story from a friend of someone who won a charity auction for dinner with Warren Buffett. Trying to schedule with Warren, he suggested that his assistant find time that worked for both of them. On the spot, Warren offered dinner the next evening. Warren Buffet, famous investor and CEO of one of the most valuable companies in the world, keeps his calendar open. He focuses on his work above all else. In every organization, there are two forces: acceleration and deceleration. One group of people focuses on building; the other slows things down with process. Organizations overrepresented by decelerators stagnate. One company activity disproportionately drives deceleration: *meeting*. Meetings corrode teams. Below are a set of principles for thinking about the impact and cost of meetings: 1. Double time to measure true cost: A standalone half hour meeting actually costs a full hour because the meeting will likely start and end late, and you have to switch contexts before and after. 2. Meeting is not working: No work is done during a meeting. 3. Schedule matters: Three back to back to back 30 minute meetings cost a fraction of three standalone 30 minute meetings spread throughout the day. 4. Recurring meetings are toxic: If you find yourself in more than one or two recurring meetings a week, you must change course. Unless there's an acute issue to solve, let people work. 5. Over-meeting drives deceleration: People meeting the most are most likely the ones decelerating an organization. Over a nearly a decade of building and running Albert, I've developed a schedule that works. Click on the link above for my actual calendar to see how it works.
Maybe provide a non-toxic environment for your meeting?
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5mo100%, some are necessary but most are not.