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...

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...

Business transformation will remain at the forefront in 2023, as organizations continue to refine hybrid ways of working and respond to the ...

Peter Drucker , in my view the father of modern management  thinking, was also a master of the art of the graceful no. When Mihaly Csikszent...

The trigger for any corporate transformation is the pursuit of value. Ideally, that entails both improving efficiency (through streamlining ...

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

Organizations are drowning in unproductive meetings, and part of the problem is the fact that we refer to them all in the same way. Vague an...

Researchers from Michigan State University say that keeping up with email throughout the day places high — and sometimes downright imposs...

"... author Stephen Covey coined  Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle   in his book   The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peo...

In his decade as CEO of Campbell Soup Company, Doug Conant developed rituals for physically and psychologically connecting with people at...

When people start habitually exercising, even as infrequently as once a week, they start changing other, unrelated patterns in their lives...

The curious thing about organizations is that having more people somehow doesn't equal more output. “As size and complexity of an organi...