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Meetings can be the worst. They waste our time and pull us away from the job at hand. They’re one of the biggest roadblocks to productivity. And they’re really, REALLY expensive. Managing Partner [...]

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Turner (a unit of WarnerMedia) operates a large-scale, ad-supported media business spanning a number of premiums content brands, including Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, CNN, TBS, TNT, truTV and [...]

The U.S. Army Warrior Transition Battalion has an amazing mission, but you couldn’t tell by hearing its leaders and staff explain it. The message was lost in translation and it hurt to hear it.

Think about the last few meetings you attended. How many people were there? Did everyone contribute in a valuable way? Did everyone even talk? Were people on their laptops and, if so, was it to [...]

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Meetings are necessary to get work done. But how can we be sure we’re getting value commensurate with their high cost?

If you are in a leadership role long enough, the time will come when you have to let someone go. While no one is likely to enjoy the way you fire them, you can spare everyone a lot of trouble by [...]

You need important information from your team members every week, if not every day. But what do you do when these conversations and emails take so much time that it pulls you away from your most [...]

“What gets in the way of your productivity at work?” I ask this question all the time when I work with leadership teams. I hear a lot of the same answers: interruptions, paperwork, sorting [...]