Hey Unfiltered Folks,

Answer: Meetings are your leadership failure.

You're allowing this. Every meeting without a decision is time theft.

You're the leader.
You set the standard.

If meetings are pointless, that's on you. You're letting people hide in meetings instead of doing work. You're tolerating this because confronting it feels uncomfortable. That's weak leadership.

Meetings should end with a decision and an owner. If they don't, they shouldn't exist. Cancel them.

Question to Consider: Who owns the decision in each meeting?

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Why: No owner means no decision.

Meetings without decisions are time theft.

Here's what's actually happening:
- someone calls a meeting.
- Everyone shows up.
- People talk.
- Ideas get discussed.
- The meeting ends.
- No decision.
- No owner.
- Everyone leaves and nothing changes.

Next week, same meeting. Same discussion. Still no decision. Your team is spending 20-30% of their time in meetings that produce nothing.

The cost? Your best people are frustrated. They see their time being wasted. They can't get real work done because they're trapped in conference rooms discussing the same thing for the fifth time. Meanwhile, your weakest people love it.

Meetings are where they can look busy without producing anything. So they call more meetings. You've created a culture where talking replaces doing.

All because you won't set a standard: every meeting must end with a decision and an owner. That's your job. Enforce it.

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Action: New rule starting today: every meeting ends with a name and a date.

"Who owns this decision?
When is it due?"

If no one can answer, cancel the meeting.
No name, no meeting.
No decision, no meeting.

Audit your calendar this week.

Cancel anything that doesn't meet this standard. Watch productivity double.

Stay Unfiltered,
— Andy

P.S. Meetings should end with a decision and an owner. If they don't, they shouldn't exist.

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