Meeting Cost Calculator for Managers

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1. Kill one recurring meeting. Look at your calendar. Find the meeting that people skip most often, that has no clear agenda, or that could be replaced by a Slack update. Cancel it for 2 weeks. If nobody notices, it didn't need to exist. “Meetings without agendas cost more because they run long, drift off topic, and rarely produce clear next steps.” Replace status meetings with async updates. If your meeting is just people reporting what they did last week, it doesn't need to be a meeting. A Monday morning Slack update achieves the same thing in 5 minutes instead of 60 — and the information is searchable.

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