Quickly and Simply Transform All Meetings

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If you could only get back the time you gave to boring, ineffective, useless meetings!

Meetings give the impression something’s getting done when usually it isn’t.

There’s too much talking in meeting
because people aren’t focused on doing.

One rule transforms every meeting from ineffective to effective.

Rule one:

Mercilessly cut everything that isn’t connected to action.

Three functions of rule one:

Every agenda item must do at least one of three things:

1. Enhance efficiency – improve action.
2. Generate assignments – create action.
3. Stop ineffectiveness and/or inefficiency – prevent action.

Guidelines for rule one:

1. All “information-giving” must clearly inform action. Always explain the connection to doing.
2. Determine options for action, when you’re problem solving and innovating, then give assignments.
3. Don’t spend so much time improving things you haven’t done yet. Do something; improve as you go.
4. Explore what isn’t working and improve it or end it. Organizations that…