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(The meetings sub-rant) The big issue I tend to have with normal corporate meetings is that everyone seems to be a complete cargo cult amateur at it; even when
by mjevans 9y ago
(The meetings sub-rant)
The big issue I tend to have with normal corporate meetings is that everyone seems to be a complete cargo cult amateur at it; even when they try.
I think I'd much prefer a "remote first" style of meeting, where everything is designed as an asynchronous, clear deadlines for contribution, process. The actual meetings should be broken up in to focus-groups tackling a specific task, such as brain-storming the definition of a problem, or that problem's solution.
- gordon_freeman 9y agoyou need another meeting to break up the tasks among focus-groups. This feels like recursive ;)
- AstralStorm 9y agoNo you don't. Allow people to take on the tasks by themselves, (agile style) distribute unwanted ones at random at a deadline.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoBut how do you determine what tasks to do and what the scope thereof is? When they're done? That's what most our meetings are about, :p
- mjevans 9y agoUltimately there does have to be someone (or some small group) where 'the buck stops'. That's who assigns the other tasks, or at least spawns them and sets default ownership + deadline. (So that the tagged individual can either produce a good alternative, or at least why they're not a good fit.)