According to a Harvard Business Review poll of 182 senior executives, many feel meetings are too frequent, poorly timed, and badly run. Consider this research:
- Meetings take up 23 hours of a workweek, up from 10 hours in the 1960s.
- Meetings can encourage dysfunctional behaviors such as wandering off-topic, complaining about co-workers, and criticizing attendees. Companies that allow this to happen have lower levels of market share, less innovation, and experience higher employee turn…