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Stop the Meeting Madness - (On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive.) (hbr.org)

Most meetings should just be a email.

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>Poking fun at meetings is the stuff of Dilbert cartoons—we can all joke about how soul-sucking and painful they are. But that pain has real consequences for teams and organizations. In our interviews with hundreds of executives, in fields ranging from high tech and retail to pharmaceuticals and consulting, many said they felt overwhelmed by their meetings—whether formal or informal, traditional or agile, face-to-face or electronically mediated. One said, “I cannot get my head above water to breathe during the week.” Another described stabbing her leg with a pencil to stop from screaming during a particularly torturous staff meeting. Such complaints are supported by research showing that meetings have increased in length and frequency over the past 50 years, to the point where executives spend an average of nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. And that doesn’t even include all the impromptu gatherings that don’t make it onto the schedule.

Most meetings should just be a email. Archive: https://archive.today/mpOjN From the post: >>Poking fun at meetings is the stuff of Dilbert cartoons—we can all joke about how soul-sucking and painful they are. But that pain has real consequences for teams and organizations. In our interviews with hundreds of executives, in fields ranging from high tech and retail to pharmaceuticals and consulting, many said they felt overwhelmed by their meetings—whether formal or informal, traditional or agile, face-to-face or electronically mediated. One said, “I cannot get my head above water to breathe during the week.” Another described stabbing her leg with a pencil to stop from screaming during a particularly torturous staff meeting. Such complaints are supported by research showing that meetings have increased in length and frequency over the past 50 years, to the point where executives spend an average of nearly 23 hours a week in them, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. And that doesn’t even include all the impromptu gatherings that don’t make it onto the schedule.

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I hate to say it but you are working with gov and that basically means that most of the people are functionally retarded. I worked in gov for far too long so I have experience with that as well....

Don't worry though, they will keep paying the checks and heads will never roll. Just CYA with reference emails and say "well, we did warn you and ask for a meeting, you refused".

At some point if you are not doing it already you need to put things into email/text "We offered to have a meeting over the upcoming changes but you have declined, we will provide the best support possible but you have accepted this risk". People start paying a LOT of attention when you start using language like that..... Don't ask me how I know. If you know, you know.

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> I hate to say it but you are working with gov and that basically means that most of the people are functionally retarded Yep

> they will keep paying the checks and heads will never roll. Just CYA with reference emails and say "well, we did warn you and ask for a meeting, you refused". Yep

We try to do a good job and do... as idiots allow

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