Meetings
There's a specific pathology I've watched repeatedly in senior meetings: the participant who takes copious notes throughout, typing or writing continuously, never quite catching the emotional register of the room, never quite participating in the decision. They have excellent records of what was said. They have
Strategy
Most companies have a strategy offsite. They happen once or twice a year, they last two to three days, they're held in conference centres or rented houses, and they produce slide decks that almost nobody refers to three weeks later. The offsite industry is worth hundreds of millions
Meetings
The most productive meeting I have ever been in lasted seven minutes. It was a Tuesday morning at a mid-sized logistics company in Rotterdam, the weekly operations review for the Benelux region. Seven people. One agenda item at a time. Each person had exactly 45 seconds to flag a specific