Ask a human being to sit alone and write 5 short sentences on what they are thinking, and they will hate you. Ask a human being to get into a meeting to “discuss something important” and they are ready to waste their 4 hours immediately.
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Most 12-people meetings could be 2-people meetings, but people don’t have meetings to do important work. They have meetings to appear important.
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Meetings are basically a group of people with the same points of view coming together to validate their beliefs, and conceal action in the mask of “we are having a meeting.”
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If we truly want to have a meeting, have every agenda written in advance, circulated to every member at least a day in advance, and ask them to come up with their ideas before they enter the meeting. Most people would think this is a time waste, but sadly think wasting long hours in an unprepared meeting is productive!
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After people become a “manager” there is an irresistible urge in people to “get things done” and “have meetings”, that they forget that they also have to do the hard work of understanding when is a meeting really needed. But wait, I don’t want to do the work, so let me just waste everyone else’s time as well! Anyway just because they don’t speak as much as I do, they are anyway useless!
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Never have a meeting with someone who works till late hours consistently. You can’t expect someone to respect your time if they don’t respect their own.
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A child who doesn’t get attention as a kid grows up to become an adult who conducts a lot of meetings.
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A working woman who doesn’t take care of herself goes on to become a leader that demands meetings.
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The human who doesn’t have a relationship with themselves forces others to validate that hole by having tons of useless meetings. Now the hole isn’t visible!
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We don’t want to think. We don’t want to write an email. So we have a meeting. 🙁
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Planning and meeting are different things. Plan asynchronously. Meet with a fixed deadline. To align everyone together. Not necessary imo, still.
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Human beings work hard to spend their lives in meetings with no conclusion.
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