How to protect your calendar against unnecessary meetings

Becoming a manager can easily lead to meeting after meeting, here are some ways to protect your diary against meeting fatigue.

Meetings can be a great way for teams and companies to make important product decisions, plan how different features need to be implemented, and keep everyone working towards the same goals. But meetings can also be pointless, hours-long distractions that waste time that could be better spent building and shipping the actual product.

Engineering leaders, in particular, can get caught up in unnecessary meetings. As a senior leader, there’s often pressure to make sure you’re aware of everything that’s going on, even if that means inviting you to every meeting possible – whether you’re needed or not.

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