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72. "Broken Meetings (and how you'll fix them)"
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BROKEN MEETINGS (and how you'll fix them)
TWITTER.COM Headquarters, 21 Sep 2010
MERLIN MANN, 43folders.com, merlinmann.com
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43 Folders: i-0.us/fix-meetings
There's a big elephant in the office today that's becoming harder to ignore—meetings.
Even the best meetings can eat up massive person-hours, but those really awful ones will just kill you. You know the type.
Those time-wasting, rudderless, repetitious, zombie meetings where "deep dives," "drill downs," and "face time" often mean much is debated, little is accomplished, and everybody leaves feeling broken--AND, often as not, late for their next meeting.
In the premiere of this all-new presentation, Merlin Mann attacks Bad Meeting Culture with the same brand of practical, funny, and thought-provoking advice that his popular Inbox Zero talks brought to the topic of email.
You'll learn:
- what got us into this meeting mess
- why meetings have special powers to waste time at scale
- how "The 'Meh' Virus" propogates
- why even scrums and one-on-ones aren't immune
- how your meeting needs a parent
- 10 insanely practical tactics for improving your own meetings--starting today
TWITTER.COM Headquarters, 21 Sep 2010
MERLIN MANN, 43folders.com, merlinmann.com
=========================================
43 Folders: i-0.us/fix-meetings
There's a big elephant in the office today that's becoming harder to ignore—meetings.
Even the best meetings can eat up massive person-hours, but those really awful ones will just kill you. You know the type.
Those time-wasting, rudderless, repetitious, zombie meetings where "deep dives," "drill downs," and "face time" often mean much is debated, little is accomplished, and everybody leaves feeling broken--AND, often as not, late for their next meeting.
In the premiere of this all-new presentation, Merlin Mann attacks Bad Meeting Culture with the same brand of practical, funny, and thought-provoking advice that his popular Inbox Zero talks brought to the topic of email.
You'll learn:
- what got us into this meeting mess
- why meetings have special powers to waste time at scale
- how "The 'Meh' Virus" propogates
- why even scrums and one-on-ones aren't immune
- how your meeting needs a parent
- 10 insanely practical tactics for improving your own meetings--starting today
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I LOVE the throwaway at 0:58:25
Bring back the 'tasks are like ducks, you're trying to shoot them not store them' thing from the Q&A in something short where more folks will get exposed to it. It's great!
including some of his quotes. I encourage others to add a quote or two.
Did Jesus start out just chatting with the money changers? "Don't you think there is something slightly wrong with your bright orange sign about payday loans inside the holiest place on earth?" "Oh yeah, the contemplative holy market, that's a hot market, they love doves". And then, whoops, there go the tables.
Your an entertaining speaker, who also shares very useful info.
Now for something completely different...what if you did an entire talk in one of those phony voices you threw into the talk, like the emacs vs. vi ones, or the doctor one, or the bassy "manager" voice ;-)
You're way too full of yourself, and you take far too long to get to a point. These are, unsurprisingly, two things that make meetings insufferable.
I might enjoy this presentation in a year when you've practised it more.
*edited to add: "When you stop feeling like you have a stake in what you do, you're useless."