A couple of days ago, my daughter asked in all seriousness if I spent all day in meetings, or did I get a chance to do some actual work. She’d been in a 1.5hr meeting planning some activities for her university course.
It led me to think:
- What meetings should be — conversations where we share information in order to coordinate action, get aligned, and connect at a personal level.
- What meetings too often are — opportunities to force opinions in order to coerce others.