I Love Good Meetings
summary
A practical playbook: clear claim that meetings fail because teams obsess over productivity and tools instead of audience and dynamics, actionable steps like tell people what they're getting into and don't skip the Icebreaker even for five‑minute standups, tactics used include one‑to‑N scales, quick improv and listening to repurpose the agenda, an anecdote about adapting military meeting discipline to human‑centred contexts, and a call to prioritize psychological safety over recurring calendar churn.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Meetings matter to design leaders
- 3:57Challenge coins to meeting code
- 5:22State of meetings today
- 7:08Productivity obsession pitfalls
- 8:32Human-centered meetings
- 9:35Know your audience
- 11:02Never skip the icebreaker or warm-up
- 12:44Listening in meetings
- 13:27Be a duck in meetings
- 13:47People over productivity
- 14:28Closing and connect
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