It's no secret that I am not a fan of excessive meetings. A day full of back-to-back meetings is my personal hell, which I suppose would make a meeting-packed day with brief intermittent breaks my purgatory. [contextly_auto_sidebar id="h4El0jyXQzufBlj8fWg1Q9MdFMu3w0LK"]I recently wrote about the...
We Rebels are the primary defenders of our own time. And there's no bigger, more frustrating, energy-squandering time suck than an unnecessary meeting or call -- especially when you're already slammed with competing deadlines. So how can you (elegantly) avoid a meeting or call after you&...
One of the first things Peter Deng did when he joined Instagram as Head of Product is cancel every recurring meeting. This pleases me. Recurring meetings are a colossal waste of time and productivity. We've devoted significant virtual "real estate" here at Ridiculously Efficient to posts...
You spend your day going in an out of meetings -- one in the morning with your team, another over lunch with your clients, one in the afternoon to brainstorm for a new project. Before you know it, you're day is over and you haven't actually...
