Optimizing meetings remains one of the most underappreciated levers for transformative impact. We spend way too much of our workday in unproductive and unnecessary meetings. In this post, we uncover some of the reasons for ineffective meetings and we propose solutions.

Meetings are the death of work productivity.  According to various sources there are 25 million meetings per day in the United States.  That amounts to $37 billion in annual productivity lost as a result of meetings.  Just yesterday I heard another example of a senior team in a large publicly traded company holding a three-hour meeting to plan for a full day meeting.  The tyranny must end.  

How does your office environment and community impact productivity?