Career · FORTUNE
Fortune #24
Mixed — reflect carefully
If meetings leave no time to do the work, ask which require a shared decision and which can become written updates.
QUOTE CARD
A quote for you
“คุณสามารถใช้เหตุผลได้อย่างเต็มที่กับเครื่องจักร แต่ถ้าคุณทำงานกับคน บางครั้งตรรกะก็ต้องหลีกทางให้ความเข้าใจ”
— อากิโอะ โมริตะ
ผู้ร่วมก่อตั้ง Sony และนักธุรกิจเทคโนโลยีชาวญี่ปุ่น
- Person
- Akio Morita
- Source work
- p. 202.
- Source text
- You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
STORY & REFLECTION
A meeting hour returned to focused work
Guidance-based illustration · A meeting hour returned to focused work
Illustrative scene: A team has a daily status meeting where everyone reads their task list aloud. Afterward they rush to do the actual work into the evening.
The team tries a brief written update and uses shared time only for problems needing joint attention. A few issues are missed in week one, so they adjust the note to show owners clearly.
Atlassian's meeting audit asks which meetings produce needed outcomes and which updates can be written instead. Shared time can then serve decisions that need discussion.
Fewer meetings should not mean missing information. The point is to get what people need to them in a workable form.
Reflection
Discussion and execution need balance.
A small action today
Propose an agenda or written update for one meeting.
A question to reflect on
Which meeting could become a written update without losing a decision?