30/03/2026
I donโt think we have a single client who doesnโt complain about meetings.
Senior leaders hopping from boardroom to boardroom.
No time to wee, eat, drink, let alone think, do the work, or prepare for whatโs next.
Global Teams calls. Cameras off. Outlook open on the second screen.
80% of the meeting spent doing โreal workโ instead of being present.
And too often?
We use meetings to share updates that could have been read in advance, while the real value of meetings gets lost.
Because the value of a meeting isnโt operational updates.
Itโs:
- Collective wisdom
- Unblocking bottlenecks
- Learning forward
- Checking assumptions
- Acknowledging effort
Yet we still invite people saying, โWe really need your insight,โ then under-utilise that expertise with unclear agendas, poor chairing, and rabbit holes.
We recently read an HBR article on meeting overload and it was a powerful reminder:
Meeting culture is fixable, but only if we design meetings with intention, not habit.
Consider one less meeting, not one more meeting.
We are curious: Whatโs the one meeting youโd happily delete from your calendar tomorrow?
Full article here: https://hbr.org/2022/10/meeting-overload-is-a-fixable-problem
