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Topless meetings for team focus?
Merlin Mann | Mar 25 2008
When it's hard to stay focused, try going 'topless' to meetings - San Jose Mercury News Our good pals over at Adaptive Path have been experimenting with banning laptops and other communication devices in meetings (something I've supported in the past). From today's Mercury News:
[via Dan Saffer] The Question to YouHas your team tried some version of topless meetings? How did it work for you? Anybody tried it and given up? How did the meetings change without the toys being on? 42 Comments
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Treat the Cause, Not the SymptomSubmitted by Vanessa MacDougal on March 25, 2008 - 2:36pm.
In my experience, a lot of meetings are a near-total waste of time for many of the participants. I once worked in a department that had near-daily status meetings we all had to attend, even though we weren't collaborating with each other and thus didn't care about the status of other projects. 20 people, 3 minutes apiece. After you deliver your three minutes of status, what are you supposed to do with yourself for 57 minutes? Of course we all brought our laptops, both to relieve the tedium and to prevent the meetings from being an absolute waste of time. (20 people x 5 hours per week = 100 person-hours per week wasted in these timsuck meetings). If laptops proliferate at your meetings, ask yourself honestly whether you are wasting people's time. Better yet, ask the meeting participants. Do an anonymous survey if you think they might not be honest with you face-to-face. » POSTED IN:
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