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How to Attend Meetings
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Re: How to Attend Meetings
#142Though these guides are well meaning, they completely misread the inadvertent outcome of meetings. Even a perfectly planned meeting has a number of other effects beside resolving the stated agenda. When and how people are invited and declined, who attends, who engages, how people engage are all signals gleaned from a meeting. Think of how many times someone felt jilted by not being invited, called on, not responded t…
No, people are interested in the outcomes of meetings.
They aren’t interested the meetings themselves.
On the off chance they care deeply about hearing one person’s perspective - there are much better ways to get that.
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#143Did anyone make a copy? File is deleted.
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#144The comments on this post are wild. Its advice. You don't need to "um actually" with every edge case you can imagine. Have your shitty meetings if you so desire.
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#145Policy very likely enacted due to the Jeffrey Toobin incident.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who leads meetings and sets agendas, I’ve basically accepted there is no perfect meeting for everyone. I regularly get oscillating feedback. One day I’ll hear “We spent too long on a couple of topics and didn’t get to enough topics” then if we try to start limiting topics to a certain amount of time I’ll hear “we never actually _solve_ anything, it’s all just too high level!”. The best I can do when I lead…
> As someone who leads meetings and sets agendas, I’ve basically accepted there is no perfect meeting for everyone. I regularly get oscillating feedback. One day I’ll hear “We spent too long on a couple of topics and didn’t get to enough topics” then if we try to start limiting topics to a certain amount of time I’ll hear “we never actually _solve_ anything, it’s all just too high level!”. Are you sure it's not that…
Just 100% on target, bravo, no notes.
I ran a team for an entire year with basically only shooting the shit meetings and occasional consensus building meetings and it was the most productive and happy the team had ever been.
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#147URL has been deleted
NYTimes acts quickly!
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#148I wonder if the (AFAIK original to) Bridgewater technique of recording all meetings will spread. One thing I think that would have helped me quite a bit is to have a transcript (with speakers annotated) of a meeting. With a sufficiently advanced LLM summarizing, I could probably a handle a much larger volume of meetings where I needed to know what was going on just as a tail-risk capturer. e.g. if someone has a meeti…
People may hate Jira and Atlassian, but let me tell you that one of the most magical things ever is recording a meeting in Look, having the action items immediately turned into Jira tickets or Confluence tasks, and a summary of the meeting posted to a Confluence page, tagging the appropriate people and with a link to the full recording.
This is built into Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection.
Re: How to Attend Meetings
#149Though these guides are well meaning, they completely misread the inadvertent outcome of meetings. Even a perfectly planned meeting has a number of other effects beside resolving the stated agenda. When and how people are invited and declined, who attends, who engages, how people engage are all signals gleaned from a meeting. Think of how many times someone felt jilted by not being invited, called on, not responded t…
No, people are interested in the outcomes of meetings. They aren’t interested the meetings themselves. On the off chance they care deeply about hearing one person’s perspective - there are much better ways to get that.
I would mostly agree , with the caveat that there are more unstated outcomes and they matter as much as the agenda
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And then you risk people making stupid decisions, which you have to fix later on, because you didn't attend the meeting. Unless your head is on the line, why do you care?
Because caring about your work, the people around you, and the quite frankly stuff in general is healthy and gives life meaning. If you go somewhere 8 hours a day, you'd like that place to matter to you. Anything else is just depressing.
Great comment. Username doesn’t check out! :)