The Globe and Mail Published April 10, 2021 Bookmark
If management is about meetings – and certainly managers spend most of their life in meetings – then better management involves improving those meetings. In our new remote world, there’s plenty we can do to tweak them.
It probably starts with considering the heretical thought that just because meetings are second nature to managers they shouldn’t necessarily be for everyone else. Maybe meetings should be rare, or, at least, less common. A distinction has been made between managers and makers, folks like programmers, writers, accountant, and designers who need long stretches of isolated time to produce their wares, and can’t be effective with a schedule of interruptions. “A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in,” notes essayist Paul Graham. Working remote has been helpful to many of your employees, giving them the isolation – at least w