Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency

There over 7 million Google and 13,000 Giphy search results for “hate meetings”. There are almost as many for “love meetings” but that is just irony. Beyond that there are countless posts on time and money wasted in meetings — ”This Company Spent 300,000 Hours a Year in Pointless Meetings” was a <a href="https://www.inc.com/brian-de-haaff/this-company-spent-300000-hours-a-year-in-pointless-meetings.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">headline</a> recently. The Muse <a href="https://www.themuse.com/advice/how-much-time-do-we-spend-in-meetings-hint-its-scary" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">reported</a> on study results that 35–50% of work time is in meetings and 67% of meetings are “failures”. We’ve all computed the financial cost to the company of a meeting we hated. Ugh. I’ve endured a lot of bad meetings in my time. I’ve led bad meetings and attended bad meetings. I’ve tried to fix meetings. I’ve broken meetings. This post is about why meetings really are important to getting things done, even with incredibly divergent views on that fact, and why meetings so often go sideways or worse. By and large meetings come and go and most of us just accept them as part of doing collaborative work in a company. Like AutoCorrect, once in a while a meeting backfires to such a degree that it just sets off a stream of emotions about how horrible meetings can be and what a huge waste of time all meetings have become. Some react by attempting to define when/how/if to have meetings as if there is a secret that has eluded most everyone for 100 years. In the course of building a company the most important tool you have to create a culture of shared values is communication and meetings are critical to communication. <a href="https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/reaching-peak-meeting-efficiency-f8e47c93317a">Read More</a>