Meetings: Key to Productivity
All employers want their employees to be more productive. Though there are various approaches on how to help them achieve this goal, you might consider that old tried and true method.
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Our meetings are actually more productive than what I’m used to, but we still have way too many of them. The longterm effect on our culture is brutal – I have many senior managers now who are absolutely incapable of making a decision or executing a plan without having a bunch of meetings about it.
We’re about to have a meeting to discuss which job category on Craigslist is more appropriate for an entry-level opening we are posting. A director, a VP, and the CEO. It will last an hour.
Frank,
Based on the above video clip, you must have a very productive organization.
As the most anti-meeting CEO I’ve ever known told me several years ago: “If meetings are up for the year, profits are down.”
John