Corporate Savannah · Episode 13 · 2:12

The Pre-Meeting

Name: The Pre-Meeting
Duration: 2 min 12 s
Description: Most decisions are made before the meeting, in a smaller room, by fewer people. Some of that is useful: nobody wants to align from scratch in front of forty colleagues. The trouble starts when the big meeting becomes a performance of a decision already taken. If one honest question can freeze the room, the room was never deciding anything. Invite the newest person into the smaller room.

The meeting before the meeting.

Field notes

Most decisions are made before the meeting, in a smaller room, by fewer people. Some of that is useful: nobody wants to align from scratch in front of forty colleagues. The trouble starts when the big meeting becomes a performance of a decision already taken. If one honest question can freeze the room, the room was never deciding anything. Invite the newest person into the smaller room.