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Grant presents the research on meetings: the average knowledge worker spends 23 hours per week in meetings, most of which are unnecessary. He offers evidence-based strategies for reducing meeting load and improving meeting quality.
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Grant argues that meetings proliferate not because communication demands increase but because organizational culture defaults to meetings as the coordination mechanism. Changing the default (async communication) reduces meeting load without reducing coordination quality.
Highlights
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The best meetings have a decision, not a discussion — meetings without a clear decision to be made are performances, not productive work
Grant argues for the decision rule: every meeting must have a specific decision to be made, stated in the invitation. Meetings that exist for updates, alignment, or discussion can almost always be replaced by async communication.Was this useful?