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In Randy Pausch's famous 'last lecture' he also speaks about organizing more useful meetings. His trick that I found works best: organize a meeting half an hour
by kabes 7y ago
In Randy Pausch's famous 'last lecture' he also speaks about organizing more useful meetings. His trick that I found works best: organize a meeting half an hour before lunch time and you'll be sure it won't last a minute longer than planned. Nobody bullshits around while hungry.
- p_l 7y agoThe amount of missed lunches, late lunches, and lunches eaten in the meeting suggests otherwise. I think at best we had a break for lunch. At worst it was "just few more minutes and then we'll be free for lunch"
- watwut 7y agoThey do. And then you are not just wasting time, you waste time hungry. Besides people are not dumb and will eat before. Imo, all these "hacks" including standing up designed to cause physical discomfort amount to ineffective management - sort of collective punishment due to inability to reign over few individuals.
- Broken_Hippo 7y agoThis is not true. I have had someone go over their time before lunch and tell us we simply had less time to eat lunch as a result.