I once suffered through an hour-long meeting on the topic of...
... how the company could have fewer meetings.
I wish I was joking.
I don't know anyone who enjoys meetings, but that's probably because most meetings at work aren't productive or value-added.
The good news is that better meetings are possible.
In Why Your Meetings Stink-and What to Do About It, University of North Carolina Charlotte professor Steven G. Rogelberg challenges managers to make positive changes to meetings by objectively assessing and improving their meeting skills.
If you're a manager, this is worth a read.
If you're not, print out a copy and discreetly slip it onto your manager's desk.
And if logic and common sense don't work, maybe you can try the Meeting Ticker: it calculates in real-time how much money is being spent every second the meeting continues.
"This is needlessly costing the company money" tends to be a compelling argument.
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