Most organizations subject their internal teams to an endless stream of meetings: formal reviews, budget updates, and a constant barrage of middle manager check-ins. I have spoken with many managers who report that simply keeping up with these (and their attendant politics) accounts for more than 50 percent of their time, day in and day out. It’s an astonishing tax on their productivity. Instead, we in the startup movement favor a system that encourages the flow of information in a way that doesn’t hinder progress, so that employees and managers can focus on producing results instead of just
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