Posts Tagged with "meetings"

#1b: Be concise in speech (especially in meetings).

As with writing, so with speaking — keep your sentences short and to the point. This is especially important when considering the context in which a lot of communication happens: meetings.Read more →

#2: How a culture of meetings proliferates.

An abundance in both the number and duration of meetings, while not inevitable, is strongly correlated with company size and age.Read more →

Reference #173: Peopleware

Total time spent in meetings increases with organisation size for two reasons.Read more →

Reference #174: Peopleware

There are two types of meetings: working meetings and ceremonies.Read more →

Reference #175: Peopleware

DeMarco and Lister offer a few approaches to improving a meeting-heavy culture:Read more →

Reference #176: Peopleware

The ultimate management sin is wasting peoples' time. Some behaviours that lead to wasting others time are the following:Read more →

Reference #262: The First 90 Days

A common team dysfunction concerns who participates in key team meetings. These are too inclusive in some organisations and too exclusive in others.Read more →