“The daily stand-up meeting (also known as a ‘daily scrum’, a ‘daily huddle’, a ‘morning roll-call’, etc.) is simple to describe: the whole team meets every day for a quick status update. We stand up to keep the meeting short. That’s it. But this short definition does not really tell you the subtle details that distinguish a good stand-up from a bad one. Given the apparent simplicity of stand-ups, I was quite surprised the first time I saw one that wasn’t working. It was immediately obvious to me what was wrong but I realised that it was not obvious to the team. I realised that my team was not aware of the underlying principles and details that would allowed them to diagnose and solve problems with stand-ups.”

“As someone who suffers from frequent encoding errors and buffer overflows, I love Adam’s idea to start a meeting by mapping the name and location of each attendant, along with their title, etc.”

“No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer’s meetings–even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda.”

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“If you are anything like me, you spend a substantial part of your day in meetings. Between meeting with clients, subordinates, various committees, and other stakeholders, meetings can take up time, energy, and motivation. A major time-waster is to spend time in meetings, agreeing to timelines and tasks, only to fail to meet those obligations due to poor meeting practices.”

“Some personalities that come out in meetings, especially at big software companies.”

“Do you believe, as someone somewhere perhaps does, that meetings, meetings, meetings, followed by more meetings are altogether a good thing? If so, Alexandra Luong and Steven G Rogelberg think you should think again. In a newly published study, they say: ‘We propose that despite the fact that meetings may help to achieve work-related goals, having too many meetings and spending too much time in meetings per day may have negative effects on the individual.’”

“Throughout my professional life I think meetings have been one of the biggest sources of frustration. I’m one of those people who really likes to work at work and while I do find some meetings very useful, and the occasional meeting totally necessary, I think the majority of meetings I’ve attended over the years could be done away with. Or at least done better.”

“I have enjoyed Patrick Lencioni’s books The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable… so I was intrigued by the title of his 2004 work: Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business. Like all of his books it is an easy read in an allegorical style. In Death by Meeting Lencioni tackles the problem of ineffective meetings. He suggests that like movies or television shows, meetings should have drama that is born primarily out of healthy conflict…”

“Meetings can make or break an organization. If your meetings are well prepared, focused on planning for action, and facilitated in an efficient, yet involving and upbeat manner, they help build your organization. On the other hand, if your meetings are poorly planned, poorly run. and don’t focus on planning for action, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to build an organization.”

“Print this bingo card and take it with you to your next meeting. Mark the buzzwords as you hear them; the BINGO square is a free square. If you get five in a row (up, down, diagonally), shout ‘Bingo!’ You’ve won!”

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