At Work with The Ready

12. Breaking the Cycle of Meeting-ocrity


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It seems everybody’s up in arms about meetings these days. “There’s too many! They ones we have suck! We have meetings to prepare for other meetings! They keep me from doing my actual job!” We get it, and we hear you. In fact, between BNW and our current show, we’ve devoted 9 episodes to meetings! What more could there be to say in a tenth?

Turns out, a ton. There’s so much intertwined with modern meeting culture that we’re often doomed to failure before we even get in the room. From the trap of the status meeting to leaders hogging all the stage time, Rodney and Sam dissect where most meetings go wrong and give you the tools to rewrite the script for how to start holding meetings that matter.


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    Mentioned references

    • 1:1 meetings: BNW Ep. 19 with Michael Bungay Stanier; AWWTR Ep. 4
    • retrospective meetings: BNW Ep. 10 with Jordan Husney
    • OS Coffee meetings: BNW Ep. 144
    • an operating rhythm of meetings: BNW Ep. 118
    • action meetings: BNW Ep. 80 with Sam Spurlin
    • "RACI episode": AWWTR Ep. 10
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