Meetings Are Not Your Enemy

Out of necessity, the team at Panache has learned to recognize traits that are common among our most impressive portfolio CEOs. I’ll be writing about a few of these over the coming weeks but let’s start with the trait that underpins everything else — the skill of effective time management. Many of your C-level team enjoy the luxury of having a defined product or marketing roadmap to govern their time but as a CEO you are by definition a generalist — a sober set of eyes that transcends these roadmaps. In <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">High Output Management</a> (a must read book for founders) former Intel CEO Andrew Grove defines meetings as ‘the medium through which CEOs’ conduct their work’. That work, Groves argues, consists of making (and helping others to make) critical decisions after an appropriate amount of information gathering. In other words, meetings are not the enemy of efficiency. Rather than try to fight against the very existence of meetings (as I once did), your challenge as CEO should be to make meetings as efficient as possible. <a href="https://medium.com/@ScottLoong/meetings-are-not-your-enemy-6c6498acb9c1">Learn More</a>