The reason most companies don't face reality very well is that their dialogues are ineffective. And it shows in their results. Think abo...

If there is one rule to remember about work meetings, it might be that they are a necessary evil. They are necessary insofar as organization...

Excessive and unproductive meetings can lower job satisfaction for several reasons. First, they generally increase fatigue as well as our su...

Another motive for meetings is what some scholars call the Mere Urgency effect, in which we engage in tasks—such as a meeting where each per...

If you, like many people, think work meetings are a huge waste of time, that might be because most meetings keep employees from, well, worki...

Shopify will be eliminating all recurring meetings involving more than two people in a bid to give employees more time to work on other task...

Like most successful founders, Jeff Bezos does his best to limit the number of meetings he attends. And when he does need to join one, he wa...

Well-organized meetings create fresh thinking and enable better decisions. No bystanders allowed. To accomplish this, Columbia Business Scho...

In 2018, Musk sent an email to Tesla employees that outlined, among other things, three clear meeting rules to follow: "Please get [rid...

Our Friday merchandising meeting is unique to retailing as far as I can tell. Here we have all these regional managers who have been out in ...

We've worked hard, spent a lot of money, and dedicated much time to our goal of diversity in our organizations. We want different ideas,...

A final way I tightened up meetings was to discourage people from coming to my office afterward to tell me what they “couldn’t say in the me...

It’s important to be right at the end of a meeting, not at the beginning. If you embrace that mind-set, you’ll do a lot less talking in meet...

If you haven’t gotten serious about tightening up your calendar, now is the time to start. Do you really need all those meetings? Are there ...

You might find the prospect of modeling intellectual rigor for your team or organization daunting. How do you do it with so many demands on ...

The most important thing when declining a meeting invitation is to monitor the tone of your message and adjust it if necessary. Since writte...

Regularly scheduled meetings (staff meetings, progress report meetings, and sales meetings) sometimes seem to be called out of habit or sens...

  “Video fatigue” comes from many factors, such as the difficulty of making real eye contact with meeting participants (known as “gaze aware...

Attending too many [meetings] can be  highly stressful and tiring, and both productivity and quality take a hit when employees tune out, bec...

Confirm key decisions and next steps . Recap what was decided in the meeting, who is accountable for following through, when implementation ...