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This Is What Happens When There Are Too Many Meetings
People call too many meetings when they want to feel more in control; those meetings often make you worse at completing whatever task or project you’re struggling to complete, in part because they’re conducted in a mononchronic way, reinscribing systems of authority, obsessed with (inactionable) action plans, and never actually building any sort of... See more
Culture Study • The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture
and we might need to meet virtually with colleagues at midnight.
Rishad Tobaccowala • Rethinking Work: Seismic Changes in the Where, When, and Why
More than a few knowledge workers, thrust suddenly into remote work, their kids screaming in the next room as they suffered through yet another Zoom meeting, began to wonder, “What are we really doing here?”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
For many different knowledge work settings, deploying these short meetings, three to five times a week, can significantly reduce ad hoc email or instant message interaction throughout the day, as everyone synchronizes during the regular gathering.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
You might be working on a client report at the same time that you’re gathering testimonials for the company website and organizing an office party, all the while updating a conflict of interest statement that human resources just emailed you about. In this setting, there’s no clear single output to track.