MeetingCulture

  • Meetings Are Often Avoidance

    ByMichelle

    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…

  • Halve Your Meetings. Replace the Rest with a Doc.

    ByMichelle

    Not every conversation needs to be live. Here’s how to audit your calendar today — and give your best work room to breathe. Here’s a question worth sitting with before you close the laptop today: How many of the meetings in your calendar next week actually need to be meetings? Not ‘is it useful to…