Former Navy SEAL Explains Why You Need to Transform How You Run Meetings
Meetings used to be a fairly intimate affair. Key people would gather once a week to compare notes and make important decisions. Today, however, they seem to be taking over. We have so many meetings, conference calls, videoconferences, and impromptu get-togethers that it scarcely seems that we have time for anything else.
This is no illusion. A recent article in Harvard Business Review cited research suggesting that executives spend an average of nearly 23 hours a week in meetings, up from less than 10 hours in the 1960s. That's more than half of a standard 40-hour workweek, and it doesn't include unscheduled meetings or hallway run-ins.
