Useless Meetings

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 Like a virus the meeting sickness has spread in our organizations over the past years. The symptoms seem to be the same everywhere: bad preparations, wrong attendees, no documentation and a growing anxiety over all the work we get less and less time to perform
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I often come across as someone who hates all meetings. That’s not true, I just think that most meetings are useless and nearly all meetings could be improved. My meeting rules:

  1. Have an agenda and stick to it
  2. Invite only absolutely necessary people
  3. Stop when you said you were going to, no matter what
  4. Document what was said or decided