Feb 15, 2019
The topic of this episode of the dHarmic Evolution podcast is meetings in corporate America. James shares his own experiences in meetings that seem to have no purpose except wasting time and money. Too often, James says that people abide by the “when in doubt, call a meeting” philosophy, but when you are paying people to stop their normal work in order to attend a pointless meeting that could have been an email, the system is broken. James mentions Jeff Haden, a writer, and editor of Inc. Magazine, who has written on this topic.
Many industries thought leaders like Seth Godin don’t even take
meetings anymore because they have found that it is more productive
to handle the problem or project in a smaller and more direct
setting. In addition to just having fewer meetings in general,
James also thinks that people should not be allowed to “think out
loud” during a meeting because they should have been fully prepared
ahead of time. He also advocates for having meetings at odd times
like 9:03 or 11:54 so we don’t neglect the lonely numbers that
never get scheduled.
Finally, James plays a recorded Skype call between English Bob and
Jacked Up Jimmy in which they discuss James’ European tour. English
and Jacked Upstart the call by discussing an upcoming meeting with
an unknown purpose and unknown attendees. They decide that they
should schedule a meeting before that meeting, so they can
determine what the meeting should be about, where it should take
place, what they should eat, and who should be invited. After a few
minutes of banter resembling Abbott and Costello, hopefully,
listeners get the point that more thought should go into calling
meetings.
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