One of the most common complaints related to meetings is that they end without any assigned actions. You may have had a very engaging discussion, but when people walk away from a meeting without any plan for follow through they assume the time spent was largely wasted. So what prevents us from assigning action items? […]

Meetings Don’t Make Decisions. Leaders Do. When an issue arises, calling a meeting has become so habitual, so automatic, that we’ve begun to conflate the meeting with the decision-making process itself. We assume that some-how the meeting will make the decision. It never does. Decision-oriented meetings can’t make decisions; only leaders can. When an issue […]