Dan Martell - October 07, 2025


Meetings waste your time


Episode Stats


Length

28 seconds

Words per minute

218.57143

Word count

102

Sentence count

7


Summary

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Meetings are the biggest time wasters. People use meetings to delay action. A team understands the vision of the business, the strategy of the company, and the constraints of business. Then they should be empowered to make decisions that don t require somebody else s feedback to move forward.

Transcript

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00:00:00.100 Meetings are the biggest time wasters.
00:00:02.500 People use meetings to delay action.
00:00:05.300 A lot of people default to meetings
00:00:07.160 because nobody gets in trouble for organizing a meeting.
00:00:09.460 It almost feels like the right thing to do.
00:00:11.180 Yet not having a meeting and making a decision is scary
00:00:14.380 because now you're accountable for that decision.
00:00:16.300 A team understands the vision of the business
00:00:18.520 and they understand the strategy of the business
00:00:20.160 and they understand the resources of the business,
00:00:21.860 the constraints of the business.
00:00:23.040 Then they should be empowered to make decisions
00:00:25.320 that don't require somebody else's feedback
00:00:27.180 to move forward.