Destroy Meetings
Who hasn’t wasted tons of time in meetings? Meetings are a joke in all organizations, and the joke is always the same - they are meaningless wastes of time. I’ve heard the sweet promises of things like Scrum, pomodoros, people slapping you in the face when you open Facebook all as means to reduce waste in the workplace. The thing is, none of them are nearly as damaging as meetings. The reason we have meetings are noble ones, but misguided in their attempts to solve a problem. Short of a masquerade for some political agenda, meetings have a singular purpose: share information. Information sharing is hard and how many of us are just awesome at writing documentation constantly? How about grooming that documentation and making sure it’s well organized? As a result, people are left out of the loop. They want to form a meeting so they can ask questions and get people nodding heads on the path forward. The problem is that even with meeting notes, real documentation hasn’t been made. The information exchanged in a meeting is transient to the members of the meeting, and even then only to their recollection. Meeting notes without context are meaningless, and meeting notes don’t really contribute to a growing knowledge base - they are a log more than anything. Someone kept minutes. ...