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On Better Meetings 4 minutes read.
Lara Hogan (Engineering Director at Etsy) with wonderful tips on how to run an effective meeting. Please read and read again "Before the meeting" as I feel this is often overlooked. It's too easy to "simply show up" and waste time for a large group of people: "If you aren’t proactive about making your meetings better, they’ll stay mediocre. If you aren’t proactive about canceling or iterating on meetings, they will stay on folks’ calendars for eternity. And if you really want to level up your game, say out loud to the people you work with what you’re doing to improve your meetings, so they might be inspired to do the same for their own"
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Are You Too Busy? 5 minutes read.
Work produces more work. A classic endless recursion. That is until the company shuts down, or you no longer there. Tom Bartel will make you think about your schedule, and the type of company you'd like to be a part of: "Organizations all over the world have been obsessed with efficiency for at least the last two decades... Nobody will blame you if you do not find the time to coach people, or to have discussions with your peer managers about the direction of your department or your organization. In a hurried environment, you would not impress anybody with that."
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