The problem with Meetings
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“As always, thought-provoking, funny, and memorable, your discussion on that modern plague of organizational life had some thoughtful findings and suggestions. You missed one though: how meetings are used as a way of hiding lack of preparation for the work or desire to do one’s share of the work. I’ve had more than a couple of seasoned professionals in high tech tell me that going to meetings is what they do; hence, measuring those contributions as what “they did” is very hard (they don’t have anything to show for it) so their evaluator is either forced to value going to meetings as very successful, unless the group’s output was an egregious failure, or not consider it positively in evaluating the individual meeting maven. Many employees simply don’t want to study and prepare for meetings, which require individual effort, because they don’t mind riding someone else’s coattails. And, since there are so many meetings occurring every day, they can spend their work days warming up chairs in generally passive participation. I remember suggesting running meetings like Bezos was rumored to have run his: the meeting started with a period of focused reading (reading! Wow!) of a multi-page memo on an issue and then an equally focused discussion on the memo. The murderous looks I got reminded me of the looks the temperance league got in saloons in old westerns. My own experience with meetings is that you reduce their number by loosely coupling the agenda to the meeting and, increasing the number of meetings with a daily one held at exactly the same time, outside of which no meeting (other than an emergency) can occur.
Again, excellent program overall, only suggest considering other post-pandemic possibilities.”
Carlos!5674 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/26/23
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“Brené and Adam have such a great chemistry and I felt like I was listening in two friends talking about the same topic that resonates with them!”
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United States of America ·
03/02/21
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United States of America ·
02/02/23
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“Thank you Adam! Getting Kara on stage with you about her “Burn Book” is a total SAVE EPISODE. Keep up the great work, AG!”
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United States of America ·
04/24/24
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