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Meetings
The most expensive, least examined recurring cost in most companies.
Every recurring meeting is a standing tax on your team's attention. Great operators design their meeting calendar the way accountants design a budget: deliberately, with a clear return.
The Operating Lens
How exceptional operators approach meetings.
Questions worth sitting with
- 01What decision will be made in this meeting that could not be made in an email?
- 02Who does not need to be here, and why are they still invited?
- 03How does this meeting end differently than it started?
- 04Which recurring meeting would no one miss if we canceled it?
Signals you may be here
- 01Your calendar is full but your team feels under-informed.
- 02Meetings drift past their end time as a rule.
- 03The same people talk in every meeting and the same people never do.
- 04Nothing is decided; things are only 'discussed'.
Practical starting points
- 01Cancel one recurring meeting this week. See what actually breaks.
- 02Require every meeting to end with a written owner, decision, and deadline.
- 03Cut default meeting length from 60 to 25 minutes.
