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Peter Drucker tells us that meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. We either meet or work. We can't do both at the same time.
Achieving flow, the state in which we do our best work, can take long periods of focus. Interruptions force us to start over each time.
Meetings need to be less like the endless commercial breaks during a football game, and more like pit stops at the Daytona 500.
Meetings are too expensive and disruptive to justify using them for the most common types of communication, like making announcements, clarifying issues, or even gathering intelligence. Like war, meetings are a last resort. The Modern Meeting is a special instrument, a sacred tool that exists for only one reason: to support decisions.
great quote
Brave decisions lead to a brave organization; fearful decisions lead to a fearful
one.
The Modern Meeting leans toward speed. Sure, some decisions will fail. But movement even occasionally in the wrong direction is far better than standing still.
