Tag: Meetings
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Link: One Simple Way to Eliminate Distractions in a Board Meeting
The best board meetings are discussions and debates about the business yet many executive teams spent their time wanting to walk through hours of slides on how great they’re doing. Humans do much better when they’re participating than when they’re being lectured to. The most value you’ll get out of your board is when they’re…
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🗂 Only the good meetings
> Finding a cadence upon which to work as an engineer can be difficult. As engineers are generally averse to meetings, oftentimes we wind up with sporadic meetings and a lot of people who are unclear on their priorities and goals. On the other side, we can find ourselves in environments that are extremely meeting…
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Link: The P Rules [for meetings]
Targeted at design, but fits for any BigCo meeting. Original source: The P Rules [for meetings]
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Link: Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has ‘the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter’, Business Insider
In the letter, he explained that writing a brilliant, long memo requires the writer to understand the subject well. It also requires the writer to “improve results through the simple act of teaching scope.” By that he means doing a great job requires effort, not speed. “A great memo probably should take a week or…
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Think big, but have small, short, and focused meetings
Have 15 minutes be the default. Sure, sounds interesting. See also Rumsfeld’s meeting rules which opens with a more management take on what meetings are for: If you think about it, a meeting’s function is to pool an organization’s collective wisdom and knowledge in one room, making it easier for a manager to learn what…
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Tips on scheduling meetings
I’m constantly shocked at how poor most people are ar scheduling meetings. There’s often simple things like “use the free/busy function” that you have to remind people about. Anyhow, there’s some good tips here if you’re someone who does all their meeting scheduling in plain text (read: you need help!), e.g.: Instead, when I’m setting…
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