We All Hate Meetings—Here’s How to Make Them Work

I'm Adi Ignatius. I'm Alison Beard and this is the HVR Idea Cast. Alright, Allison, today's topic is one that every single listener is sure to have strong views about, and that is Meetings. So Alison, what do you generally think about work meetings? I try to avoid them at all costs. Thought you'd say that and and why? What do you what do you hate most about meetings? Um I think that in most meetings people spend a lot of time talking rather than deciding or doing

And as someone who really likes to get things done, I think they're a productivity waster. You're not alone in that. The numbers should alarm you. Alright, people spend about 30% of their work time in meetings. And in surveys generally say that half of their meetings are So if you do the math. Six hours of bad meetings a week, average US salary$30 an hour, cost of anyway, it works out to about$170 billion in the US.

wasted in pointless meetings. That's about six percent of the US GDP. Oof, I am glad that you did the math instead of asking me to do it, but that is really astonishing. It's astonishing. But we're here today not just to carp about the negative, we can do that all day on meetings, but to talk about how to do meetings well and so well that it's a competitive advantage for your company. So my guest is Paul English, who is the co-founder of Kayak. Who has thought a lot and who has talked to a lot of fellow CEOs.

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