Don’t Set an Agenda Before Important Meetings
You’ve probably heard this advice about meetings before: Set an agenda and stick to it. But if the purpose of your meeting is to solve a complex challenge, this advice couldn’t be more wrong. Complex problems — like how to grow a company faster, or realize the...
6 Meeting Metrics to Collect in Every Meeting You Run
In your mission to use data as one of the tools for improving your meeting culture, you’ll be collecting information that can show trends and patterns for your meetings, so you’ll need a system where you can save and add to this data over time (in most...
The Real Reason Steve Jobs Hated PowerPoint
It’s no secret that the former Apple CEO was no fan of PowerPoint. He said: “I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People confront problems by creating presentations. I want them to engage, to hash things out at the table,...