How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. ...

Harlan Coben doesn’t think so. The mega-best-selling author talks suburbia, impostor syndrome, and what he learned from his college friend David Foster Wallace. If you'd like to see the video version of Better in Person, you can watch it on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Si ... Show More

Governments started the space age. Now, billionaires and private firms are reinventing it. Guest host Steve Levitt explores what the past can teach us about a high-stakes future. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, vice president and fellow at Google, ... Show More

Gary and Stephen talk about creativity, recovery, getting fired, and holding grudges. They also get outside and play basketball, which is a big part of how Gary stays well. If you'd like to see the video version of Better in Person, watch it on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. Hosted b ... Show More

Every day 55 million meetings take place in the United States. But just how effective are they at actually getting stuff done? British comedian David Mitchell has been investigating how the meeting evolved and the "meeting-isation" of society.(Picture: a man boring colleagues dur ... Show More

Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus-–and meeting overload kills productivity. So why do we have so many of them– and is a better world possible? Adam investigates the science of improving meetings and explores how workplaces are fighting meeting bloat. Available transc ... Show More

All of the data points to meetings being an increasingly ineffective way of us getting work done. In this week’s podcast, Helen and Sarah explore what’s going wrong with meetings, sharing their own experiences of the good and not so good and thoughts on common wisdom to make them ... Show More

Meetings can be an extremely frustrating part of work. But they don't have to be! Listen to this episode with guest Claire Johnson of Stripe to discover a meeting opportunity you may be missing, learn how to combat the worst meeting habit, and get some tips you can use to start i ... Show More

Steven Rogelberg, a professor at UNC Charlotte, has spent decades researching workplace meetings and reports that many of them are a waste of time. Why? Because the vast majority of managers aren't trained in or reviewed on effective meeting management. He explains how leaders ca ... Show More

<p>Way too many of you ask me how do I get so many things done...It&#39;s by converting a lot of my 30-60 minute meetings into 15 minute meetings. Yes, this leads to much more productivity to squeeze as much juice out of a day but also gives you much more time to get back your wo ... Show More

<p>Better meetings are not a myth, but it starts with deconstructing how you got to where you are today. A hectic calendar and meetings showing up like popcorn.</p><p>What can you do to improve this? Managers and individual contributors can start by focusing on what the goal of t ... Show More

<p>Delve into why people hate meetings, explore what hinders their effectiveness, and how to change that. <a href="https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/karin-reed/">Karin Reed</a> (Emmy Award winner) and <a href="https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/joe-allen/">Joe Allen</a> (“The ... Show More

<p>Meetings are the worst type of interruption. A one-hour meeting with five people is actually five hours of productivity lost. They&apos;re also horrible at conveying information. So, why do so many companies jump to meetings as the first option. Next time try writing something ... Show More