Tag: meetings

  • Stop Interrupting Employees and Let Them Work

    The main reason why people can’t get work done at work are managers and meetings. That’s Jason Fried’s take on things as he exposes it in his latest TEDx Talk. He lays out the main problems to getting work done and presents three suggestions to making work work. No Talk Thursdays: He actually suggests a…

  • For the Love of Meetings

    According to Ron Ashkenas, most managers actually like meetings, and he enumerates the reasons in a recent blog post entitled Why We Secretly Love Meetings. His key arguments are that: They encourage social interaction They keep everyone in the loop They often represent status He also remarks that though we all know the rules of…