This week’s been about time — protecting space to think, and noticing how often a meeting is standing in for a decision you could just make. Today’s the practical part. Block one hour this week. No calls booked over it, no email open, phone in another room if that’s what it takes. Better still —…
At Amazon, if something felt hard or unclear, the reflex was always the same: get people in a room. It felt responsible. It felt collaborative. Looking back, a fair number of those meetings weren’t either of those things — they were avoidance, just dressed up with an agenda and a calendar invite. A meeting about…
When I got made redundant from Amazon after nearly a decade, the first thing that hit me wasn’t panic. It was quiet. For years my calendar had been solid blocks of back-to-back meetings — program reviews, team huddles, one-to-ones, engagement sessions. Suddenly all of that was gone, and in the space it left behind, I…
