Day #5: How much time is wasted in a bad meeting?
After 3 years of running a remote team across different time zones, I’ve come up with my formula to calculate time wasted because of bad meetings: Time Wasted = Meeting Duration x Number of Participants For example: If you run a useless 1-hour meeting with 6 people, you didn’t just waste 1 hour, you wasted 6.
After 3 years of running a remote team across different time zones, I’ve come up with my formula to calculate time wasted because of bad meetings: Time Wasted = Meeting Duration x Number of Participants For example: If you run a useless 1-hour meeting with 6 people, you didn’t just waste 1 hour, you wasted 6. To prevent many wasted hours, I would like to encourage you to ask yourself these 4 questions before scheduling a meeting with someone: This question is especially critical if you are working in a remote team across different time zones, where coordinating schedules is a lot of…
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