Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time

Having meetings for the sake of having meetings drive me insane. Meetings should be short, to the point, and only called when they are absolutely necessary.

In the New York Times, Reid Hastie (professor at the University of Chicago) offers some good tips to keep meetings productive and efficient:

• Whoever calls a meeting should be explicit about its objectives.
• Everyone should think carefully about the opportunity costs of a meeting.
• After productive or unproductive meetings, assign credit or blame to the person in charge.

Keep people accountable, and stop having meetings for meetings’ sake. Please.