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Management

Run the meeting you'd want to attend

A field guide to agendas, decisions, and the quiet discipline of ending on time.

Olugbenga AkindukoAugust 5, 20261 min read

The average recurring meeting is a tax everyone pays and no one audits. The fix is not fewer meetings in the abstract — it is meetings with a job.

Every meeting owes you a decision or a change

If a meeting cannot name the decision it exists to make or the shared understanding it exists to build, it should be an email. Protect the calendar the way you'd protect a budget.