As a PM —- you know the guy who is filling your calendar up with meetings and preventing you from doing the real work —- I love this. Please send us and others

As a PM —- you know the guy who is filling your calendar up with meetings and preventing you from doing the real work —- I love this. Please send us and others signals. Be brutal and direct. “This meeting doesn’t have an agenda, so I won’t attend. Feel free to send me notes and highlight your ask.” “I am happy to meet, but only for 15 minutes instead of 30.” You don’t even need to justify it, unless that justification is intended to send a signal to the person trying to take up your time that they must do better if they want to succeed in doing so.