Comments on: Too Many Meetings? Ask Madeleine https://leaderchat.org/2017/05/27/too-many-meetings-ask-madeleine/ A Forum to Discuss Leadership and Management Issues Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:34:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Madeleine Homan Blanchard https://leaderchat.org/2017/05/27/too-many-meetings-ask-madeleine/#comment-63259 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:34:09 +0000 http://leaderchat.org/?p=9877#comment-63259 In reply to gary gruber.

Gary, I love these ideas. Especially the get promoted until you have enough seniority to cancel them, that made me laugh! Death by Meeting is a book, by Patrick Lencioni – I love it when authors nail it in the title!
Thanks for the very fun input.

]]> By: gary gruber https://leaderchat.org/2017/05/27/too-many-meetings-ask-madeleine/#comment-62921 Sat, 27 May 2017 11:57:32 +0000 http://leaderchat.org/?p=9877#comment-62921 Keep working, get yourself promoted again so you’re in charge of meetings and then start cancelling them.
Or speak to the people who are in charge and ask those very good questions, the first of which is why so many meetings? Death by meeting could be a new book if it hasn’t already been written.
Best thing I ever did one time was to begin a meeting by cancelling it and asking everyone to go back and finish what they were working on when they stopped to come to the meeting. Then next time we meet, everyone bring a note about how that experience affected them.

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