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DEC 15
The Meeting That Could Have Been An Email: A Tragedy
By Bob Loblaw
[IMAGE PLACEHOLDER]
We gathered in Conference Room B at 2:00 PM. The agenda was vague. The air was stale.
For sixty minutes, we circled the same three points. Action items were assigned to people who weren't there. Synergy was leveraged. By 3:00 PM, we had accomplished nothing that a three-sentence email couldn't have achieved.
This is the modern productivity paradox: we are so busy talking about work that we have no time to do it.
The Bob Loblaw Bottom Line: Decline the invite. Save your soul.