"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
-Thomas Sowell
I LOVE the above quote. I have to admit that I dislike business meetings almost as much as I dislike talking on the phone (aka "a distant business meeting"). Also, I have found that meetings are often the replacement for productivity.
How dare you Zach!? How can you say that meetings take the place of productivity? Simple. Show me a manager that wants to meet all the time and I will show you someone that either: (1) does not know what they need to be doing daily or (2) has to validate their position with meetings. What a waste of time.
Ouch. Sorry. It is true. YET...there are GOOD meetings in this world! Short ones, like a huddle.
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Verne ENCOURAGES business meetings! Actually he thinks you should have one DAILY! (But Zach, you just said they were a waste of time!)
Correct, yet, these meetings are EXCEPTIONAL! A daily meeting of your management team to define the TOP 5 goals for the day, along with a request for specific help from anyone that needs it. All done in... 14 minutes or less! WHOA!!
A brief, pointed, directed, impacting meeting that is just about business is a great idea. Put a time clock to it is even better! A football team "huddles" before almost every play. They do not discuss, they just listen and act.
Maybe your business should execute more like a football team and huddle on only what matters at the moment!
Cheers,
Zach
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