Totally feel this. Running multiple teams taught me the same thing- every unnecessary meeting steals more energy than time. You lose the rhythm you actually build companies with. A polite “email works better for me” saved my sanity. 🙂
The part about asking people to send an email instead of jumping on a call is so simple but most folks don't do it. That 99% stat about emails never arriving actually checks out, because if someone can't take 2 minutes to write out their question, they probably don't have their thoughts organized enough to make a call productive anyway. It's wild how we all collectively agree to burn time in meetings instead of just being straight with each other.
so true!!! I guess it all boils down to not having a strong relationship with the person in the mirror. When people don't have that, they subconsciously fill that with useless conversations in the form of meetings or even social media
Totally feel this. Running multiple teams taught me the same thing- every unnecessary meeting steals more energy than time. You lose the rhythm you actually build companies with. A polite “email works better for me” saved my sanity. 🙂
SOO good to see a team leader validating this :)
Thanks Deepak :))
The part about asking people to send an email instead of jumping on a call is so simple but most folks don't do it. That 99% stat about emails never arriving actually checks out, because if someone can't take 2 minutes to write out their question, they probably don't have their thoughts organized enough to make a call productive anyway. It's wild how we all collectively agree to burn time in meetings instead of just being straight with each other.
so true!!! I guess it all boils down to not having a strong relationship with the person in the mirror. When people don't have that, they subconsciously fill that with useless conversations in the form of meetings or even social media