The Seven Sins of Deadly Meetings →

Andy Grove has been a hero/role model since I first learned that he personally taught a class for all incoming employees about how to participate in and lead meetings at Intel. He did this as CEO for years!

Indeed, every new employee, from the most junior production worker to the highest ranking executive, is required to take the company’s home-grown course on effective meetings. For years the course was taught by CEO Andy Grove himself, who believed that good meetings were such an important part of Intel’s culture that it was worth his time to train the troops.

We need to become more efficient, more effective, more strategic, more collaborative, more results-focused, more data-driven, more connected. More communicative. More helpful.

That's going to require a lot of people to be in a lot of meetings on top of what they're already doing, so I think we should fix meetings first.