Adam Grant

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The Rest Is Politics: US · The Leadership Mistake Almost Everyone Makes (Adam Grant) · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

We can meet because we need to decide, we want to bond, we're here to create, or we're showing up to learn.

If you are not meeting for one of those reasons, if you're not there to decide, bond, create, or learn, you don't need to be meeting in the first place.

And I think everything else falls in the category of this meeting should have been and could have been an email.

So let's get clear on that.

If we're here to decide, the kind of contribution you're looking for in terms of people challenging assumptions and bringing options that we hadn't thought about before is very different than if we show up to Bond, where we're going to be sharing personal stories and maybe talking a little bit about our collective values.

So let's get the purpose clear.

That would be my table stakes.

I've lost count.

Too many.

And it's extremely frustrating.

And this is a solvable problem.

Rebecca Hines has done some great demonstrations.

She did this at Dropbox and then at Asana, where she had people cancel all their recurring meetings.

And then she said, okay, now let's do an audit.

Which ones are important?

Which ones are value added?

Which ones are unnecessary?

And on average, when teams did this, they were able to save about 11 hours a month.

So I would say clear the calendar, start over is a good place to kick this off.

Well, I think there are a couple options here, but let's assume we're here to make a decision, which is what a lot of group meetings are fundamentally about.

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