Study upon study has revealed meetings are catastrophically inefficient.*
Matthew Syed
The reality, says Buber, is that we live in a “profoundly twofold” world, the realm of I-Thou and the realm of I-It. They are not two worlds. They are one. And they need each other.**
Philip Newell
Confession:
I’m not the best person
to ask about meetings.
If I can get out
of a meeting,
I will.
I’ve learnt
a few things after being in
thousands of meetings:
If you have to lead a meeting
and there is someone present better
at this, ask them to lead…
Don’t try to be a “meeting-person,”
Be yourself and
turn up in your superpower…^
Meetings aren’t bad,
They just lost their way, forgetful
that they are meant to stimulate and organise the new…
If you were out there everyday doing
new things, you’d come to long for a meeting
to bring it all together.
*Matthew Syed’s Rebel Ideas;
**Philip Newell’s The Great Search;
^I found myself to be a much happier listener than speaker – I began to take a notebook to meetings, in which I would mix things that were being shared in the meeting with thoughts and ideas I was reading about and that excited me. If anything pertinent appeared, I would share it.
THIN|SILENCE 