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Meetings, a necessarily evil ?
Meetings are here to stay, but not in the form they’re in today.
I’ve never been in a professional setting where meetings were well seen.
In fact it’s quite the opposite.
Calendars free of meetings have become the new flex, the sign that leaders have achieved the freedom they worked so hard for.
When I went off on my own, having days without meetings felt liberating. I could all of sudden accomplish so much more in less time.
I’m not going to deny it : the way meetings are run today is wasteful. You’re constantly on a hamster wheel where you’re TALKING about things rather than getting things done. The simplest decision can take ages, and by the time everyone’s come around to making a decision, hours have gone by seemingly unaccounted for.
But all that being said, I believe that the future will belong to those companies that nail their meetings.
Or more broadly, the future will belong to those companies that are able to nail collaborative work.
And meetings is a big part of collaborative work. There is only so much you can do asynchronously. And there is only so much buying-in you can get from your employees if you keep telling them what to do, rather than include them in the decision-making process.
