Read This Before Our Next Meeting

Change is never met with open arms. Great decisions involve risk and risk scares people; it's natural for great ideas to get attacked or, worse, ignored. I can think of no single great innovation that has ever happened without the presence of opposition.

the two most serious dangers of our current meeting system. * * * 1. Traditional meetings create a culture of compromise. 2. Traditional meetings kill our sense of urgency.

This false urgency is echoed in three common meeting types: Convenience meetings Formality meetings Social meetings

Peter Drucker tells us that meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. We either meet or work. We can't do both at the same time.

When a revolutionary idea is brought into our meetings (and many have been), no one takes ownership. The bystander effect takes over.