55: Will my next meeting fail?

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Dima and Slava discuss all the so familiar ways in which business meetings can fail and share their thoughts on how to prevent meetings from failing.

• Theme corner: Slava's winter of nucleus and spring of connection
  • Magic of longer vacations

Meeting is when people get together to achieve a specific purpose

• Meetings have a goal. Effective meetings achieve their goals.
• How meetings fail
  • Goal or purpose is not defined
  • Meeting setup is not fit for the goal it tries to achieve
  • People, who are needed, are not in the meeting
  • The purpose of a meeting is misplaced
  • Lack of focus in a meeting
  • Wrong pacing of meeting: too fast or too slow
  • Lack of follow-up
• Are there kinds of meetings that absolutely must happen face to face? Is it possible to hold any kind of meeting remotely?
• Is there a best duration for a meeting?
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