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What kind of trick question is this? It's probably impossible to count the amount of time I've spent in meetings I didn't need to attend. There's a definite trend in business where a lot of people think having a meeting is the work. It really does seem like most meetings are just people spinning their wheels and then congratulating themselves on how good the meeting was.
Honestly every meeting could be an email. Most of them could be cut down to 30 minutes max from 2 hours and the highlights sent out in an email. I have 4 meetings scheduled today and Friday the same. Some people can’t help it because they love hearing their voice.
Elon has it right, if nothing is being solved within the first 10 minutes of a meeting it should be disbanded. Exceptions I see to this rule are kickoff and debriefing type meetings. But status meetings are a waste of time, as they can be replicated by some form of dashboard tool like jira or share point.
A good 40% I can't count how many times someone reads a PPT or a text chain at me.
I am literally in a fight with my management about that very issue! I want a jira board and 30 hours of my life every week back!!!! Its like I’m forced back to life in the 1990s with spreadsheet data tracking and non stop meetings to status everyone because my leadership thinks it’s too time consuming to learn how to do things in “that new tool that’s just a fad” and communication is how you get things done!
I now have a magnet sign on my desk that reads:
I just survived another meeting that should have been an email!
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