Dan Martell - August 12, 2024


Meetings are the biggest time wasters in any company

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

41 seconds

Words per minute

214.6

Word count

148

Sentence count

9


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of having regular meetings and why you should fight to have the least amount of them. We run companies with a lot of meetings. Every leader for their department should understand the strategy, the systems, the reporting, and the people. If they don t have those fundamental things, the only way to solve the problems that come up is meetings. And those meetings are usually like, "Hey guys, since our conversation yesterday, I came up with some stuff I wanted to review with you guys. Since you're not doing the work, none of those meetings is going to do the work."

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00:00:00.000 We run companies have a lot of meetings.
00:00:02.800 Every leader for their department
00:00:04.320 should understand the strategy, the systems,
00:00:07.240 the reporting, and the people.
00:00:08.720 If they don't have those fundamental things,
00:00:10.480 the only way to solve the problems
00:00:11.500 that are gonna come up is meetings.
00:00:13.160 And those meetings are usually like,
00:00:15.360 hey, since our conversation yesterday,
00:00:17.220 I came up with some stuff I wanted to review with you guys.
00:00:19.880 None of those meetings is anything close to doing the work.
00:00:23.320 And oftentimes without doing the work,
00:00:25.760 you don't have enough information
00:00:27.260 to actually make good decisions.
00:00:28.460 So you're just talking in hypotheticals.
00:00:30.960 It's almost like you should fight
00:00:32.360 to have the least amount of meetings.
00:00:34.280 And anytime it requires a meeting,
00:00:36.840 you should use that as a feedback loop to say,
00:00:38.840 what do we need to change in our process
00:00:40.140 to avoid that meeting in the future?