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Put your solo meetings on your calendar and protect them like any other meeting of appointment.
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A regular rhythm of efficient meetings can replace 90 percent of hive mind messaging, if you have a way to keep track of what needs to be discussed in these meetings.
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169 |
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For many different knowledge work settings, deploying these short meetings, three to five times a week, can significantly reduce ad hoc email or instant message interactions…
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…it’s surprising how much overwhelming, attention-fracturing, back-and-forth interaction can be compressed into a frequent schedule of very short check-ins.
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…wasted days [in endless departmental meetings with little discernable accomplishment]… are depressing for most workers at all levels.
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255 |
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Every meeting, email, and phone call fragments attention and prevents real work from getting done.
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No matter how good an appointment or meeting looks or sounds at first blush, it must meet the criteria of validity. If it doesn’t offer the prospect of producing results you can measure, it has to go.
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Whom you meet, how you meet them, and what they think of you afterward should not be left to chance.
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Whom you meet, how you meet them, and what they think of you afterward should not be left to chance.
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When it comes to meeting people, it’s not only whom you get to know but also how and where you get to know them.
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