Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Meetings often create the very problems they are meant to solve.
- In plain terms
- Fewer meetings would prevent many issues.
- What can you take from it?
- Reduce meeting frequency to avoid creating work.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How many of your meetings create problems?
- Which meetings could be emails?
Another view
Some problems require discussion to resolve.
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