Business Bricks

Alex Smith says:
Some interesting stuff there but I suspect a lot of axes being ground. When I got my first senior management role with a local authority front-line service provider one of the first actions i took was to cancel the weekly Friday afternoon staff meeting. I found that when there was no real reason for the meeting people just griped. In Scotland we the word “greet” means “cry.” I called those kind of meetings “Greeting Meetings.” We did not abolish meetings. Instead we met when there was a reason and for as long as we needed. Okay, there was still some time wasted for the reasons suggested but much less time and with better results.
by Alex Smith on 23 Jan

Matt Weston says:
Thanks Alex. Signals vs. Noise just posted an update/ caveat to the earlier post: you still want meetings. here’s how to make them useful
by Matt Weston on 25 Jan