Archive of posts with tag 'meetings'

Against Recurring Meetings

October 5, 2022 • #

I have a bone to pick with recurring meetings. They’ve become a scourge that’s been amplified with fully distributed teams. What may start with clear intent as a space for a team to coordinate continuous work eventually devolves into a purely ceremonial affair. And they’ve gotten 10x worse since the pandemic turned every meeting into a remote one. This effect was visible long before COVID, but I think remoteness has magnified the negatives without adding any positives.

Recurring meetings

Since no one has to book a conference room, the bar to generating tons of ceremony...

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Peak Meeting Efficiency →

September 15, 2020 • #

An epic post from Steven Sinofsky about all forms of meetings, when to use them, when not to use them. The list of dysfunctions and countering tactics is full of gems.

The thing is that most people say they don’t want to have meetings. Most say “oh that meeting could have been handled with an email or slack message”. They might be right. But that is only if you take the meeting literally. Meetings mean so much more to a company than conveying information or deciding.

Meetings are literally how cultures are formed, values expressed, and companies made.

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