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How to have meetings that don't suck (as much)

What changes do you need to make?
April 16, 2021

That meeting could have been an email.

As a professional meeting attendee, I often attend anywhere between 25–30 meetings in a given week. I have one of those calendars that is so solidly booked, it looks like it’s one solid meeting until you look and realize it’s made up of 400 smaller meetings in a trenchcoat named Busy. I don’t usually mind though, because if you run your meetings right, they can be effective, useful, and can sometimes even lead to people wanting to attend more of your meetings!

We’ve all been to bad ones.

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