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Brave New Work 4. Let's Have Fewer, Better Meetings with Dan Kim

At Work with The Ready

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Meetings to Prepare for Meetings

Rodney: One of the most common complaints that I think we see and hear is meetings to prepare for meetings, tension. We just have so many meetings and most of them aren't even about a thing,. They're about getting ready to show someone something or get approval or ask for something, etc. It's all just theater by the time we get there. So why do you think this is going on? Well, I think it is about the addiction to prediction and control at the end of the day. Rodney: In our company, like we do these, you know, trimesterly initiatives now, there might be a moment in our off site every four months where a team needs

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