A simple way to improve team productivity is to stop inviting “lurkers” to meetings. I was introduced to the term “lurker” in 2000 when I was active in IRC chat rooms. A lurkers is someone who doesn’t provide any value to the group chat. Their participation is very minimal and usually not helpful. In meetings, a lurker is someone who similarly doesn’t participate …
Ruthless Meetings
Ruthlessness has always had a bad rap. There is a thought that being ruthless is uncaring or cold. However, being ruthless is a virtue when it comes to staying on track to meet project deadlines. A current client of mine often has one hour meetings in which, after 20 minutes and the pertinent topics having been resolved, everyone in the meeting …