Most meeting suck. It takes a lot of work to make a meeting not suck. EOS has a good model for productive meetings with the Level 10 meeting structure. But the structure alone doesn’t do it; you have to do the work outside of the meeting to make the meeting itself worth it.

Meetings also suck because we misuse them. A good HBD article (linked below) from a few years ago summarizes the reasons people have too many meetings and they’re low value:

1. Meeting FOMO (you didn’t need to attend that meeting)

2. Selfish Urgency (I have a need and I’m going to interrupt everyone’s day to address it)

3. Meetings as Commitment Devices (we will hold a meeting after something is supposed to be done so you do it)

4. The Mere Urgency Effect (staying busy by attending meetings can feel productive even when it’s not)

5. Meeting Amnesia (we are holding a meeting because we didn’t retain the outcomes of the past meetings)

6. Pluralistic Ignorance (everyone knows this meeting sucks but nobody speaks their mind about how useless this meeting is, so we assume we are the only one this thinks it sucks and we keep having it)

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