People get sloppy. We know that. How many of you have cleaned out a drawer and thought you’d keep it clean this time? You might even buy clever organizers to help, but at some point in the future it’s the same jumble of junk spilling out of those cute bamboo dividers.

The running shoes bought in a haze of good intention that now gather dust, the organizing app we never open. The list of well-meaning commitments that we fail to follow through on gets long.

Look at your calendar. How many hours every day are you and most of your team in meetings? When do you get your actual work done? On a scale of 1-10 how effective and necessary are the meetings, 1 being useless, 10 being essential?

My guess is you’re averaging about a 3.4.

My guess is that your meeting culture is a mess.

If our health suffers from eating too many ultra processed foods, our work cultures and effectiveness plummet when we have too many meetings we don’t need.

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