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Also if it was so easy to cut out meetings, why wouldn't companies have done it already and get that extra productivity with 5 days. At my current work it's al

• JohnMakin 2y ago
  Yea, to me, it needs to be a top down cultural thing, every meeting needs someone actively "quarterbacking" it and needs to be aggressively steering the meeting back on topic. There needs to be a culture of, "If I have nothing to contribute to this meeting, I do not attend or I will leave." Meetings need to be scheduled for an hour with the goal of finishing after 30 minutes, and if there's "extra time" you are simply done. Things like that. The problem to me isn't the number of meetings or the meetings themselves, just how many unnecessary parties get added to them or how much time is wasted in them by having no one actively leading/steering the conversation (which absolutely no one wants to do, especially in cross-functional meetings where there is no clear lead)
  • kevinventullo 2y ago
    I would also add the instinct of making meetings recurring, and then never reevaluating whether that meeting is still needed at the same cadence or even at all. As an EM in big tech I am guilty of creating my fair share of meetings, but I do my best to cancel or turn down their cadence once they’re no longer useful.