Tag: Meetings
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“What do you think about Windows 8, Mary? Have you thought about it much?” 2012.
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Survive the next meeting
This is a mode I catch myself in where all I’m focused on is getting through the next meeting. “Getting through” means running out the clock so that it’s over, getting out of it without any new work, and especially without “getting in trouble” for something. Obviously, this is bad most of the time as…
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A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work.
As always, if you want your people to get more work done, interrupt them less and invite them to less meetings. This applies to all people, not just programmers. A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work. 🔗 Meetings and interruptions are still the biggest obstacles for developers, even with AI
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Seeing like a software company – When management meddling slows down the business because they need/want to measure and make decide. Also, good sub-plot on “the meeting for the meeting,” prep meetings and using the “back-channel” to get things done.
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How to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad News – “Create a shared mental model to make sure your team understands what the new context means for how they work together.”
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Minimum Viable Humans. – “it’s only possible with algorithmic management taking over functions previously handled by human managers: performance monitoring, task allocation, basic feedback and guidance, coordination and information flow. On the positive side, this should translate into a sunset for the endless run of pointless meetings. Good riddance.”
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Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA – Fast Company – It’s always too many meetings: ‘But when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might. I would say the culture shock is…
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How to Prepare for a Meeting Where Emotions Will Run High – Probably good advice for life too.
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The Hidden Toll of Meeting Hangovers – Hell is other people: “In our survey, more than 90% of respondents said they experienced meeting hangovers at least occasionally. More than half said these hangovers negatively impacted their workflow or productivity, while 47% reported feeling less engaged with their work. These effects often resulted from rumination, or…
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Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron – Why you do tops-down management and lots of meetings in larger, more mature companies.
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White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now – The Atlantic – “Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour.” // For 25+…
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Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix – So many business bullshit terms here!
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28 Questions to Ask Your Boss in Your One-on-Ones – Good things to talk about in your meetings if you can’t think of anything else.
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How’s your free/busy cal for the “Discuss Options for Uncle Frank’s Casket” meeting?
Suggested theme song: that’s some real-deal wigglin’. Meetings It’s that time of year again: lots of planning meetings. In my role, I’m usually so far out to sea and into terra incognita that I don’t get to many corporate meetings. But, I have recently. Here’s four things I’ve been thinking: 1. Categorize meetings into two…
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🏨📺🥶 Pieter Bruegel’s Discount Motel, Color TV, Cold AC
Generic Plan for a Starting a Platform Team in a Large Enterprise On Friday, I had a discussion with someone just starting to think about how they’d put a platform in place at their very large organization. I have my ever evolving prattle about that, of course. But rather than talk about (only) that, I…
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The finger-wagger is usually just me finger-wagging at myself
# A reminder that having fun is possible It’s hard finding fun – and especially joy – in life. Family is frequently just about getting through the every day grind and fighting to have some time to “hear myself thinking.” Even getting together with friends can seem like planning an all hands meeting. Beware of…
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