Meetings Harmful, Stop Going

I always try to prepare for meetings that I'm going to. Especially for ones that I have control over. I also try to keep them small & short, 'cause the more meetings, and the more people in meetigns you have, the less information that's going to be exchanged. If I don't having anything to prepare for a meeting, I know it's a good one to take my laptop too. That way I can at least catch up on some e-mail.

This blogger argues that we shouldn't have meetings at all. He bases his premise on this research, which concludes that the more interuptions we have in our day (including meetings, phone calls, and other unscheduled annoyances) the less productive we are (duh!) Not only less productive, but we become prone to depression, anxiety, and burn-out in direct proportion to these annoyances.

I'm not sure we can get away with not going to meetings entirely, and I'm not sure that you can train people to stay on the agenda or magically create time for people to properly prepare. Maybe the people over at Slow Leadership have it right: in order to be more productive and satisfied with our work, we need to slow down and give ourselves the time to do things right. What do you think?

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