The Peculiar And Heinous Tedium Of Most Meetings

<p>Almost everyone I&rsquo;ve ever worked with hates meetings, or at the very least&nbsp;<em>pretends&nbsp;</em>to hate meetings but really likes going to them because they fill up the day and prevent real work (a-ha!), and yet despite decades now of &ldquo;A meeting that could have been an email&rdquo; memes, we still trudge to these things almost every day. Sometimes virtually, sometimes in-person. Whatever&rsquo;s clever. Some meetings have outlasted their relevance by about six years, created because someone who no longer works at the company once dropped a ball, and some middle manager &mdash; who also no longer works at the company &mdash; decided there needed to be an &ldquo;all-hands&rdquo; on Monday at 11am for &ldquo;accountability.&rdquo; Even though this could easily be shared on Slack/Teams/etc., a whole new group of people are now destined to keep attending this meeting for another three years.</p> <p>The particular tedium of the meeting culture takes many forms:</p> <ul> <li><strong>It has the wrong people in it:&nbsp;</strong>Higher-level meetings tend to&nbsp;<em>never&nbsp;</em>have execution-level people in them, and then the higher-level people move to another meeting, then a third meeting, then a fourth meeting, so by the time they finally get back to their email, they forget what happened in the first meeting, and so they can&rsquo;t give any type of action items or communication to anyone who the first meeting impacts. As a result, a bunch of people run in circles for another two weeks.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://tedbauer.medium.com/the-peculiar-and-heinous-tedium-of-most-meetings-e0604de23cae"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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