Patrick Lencioni
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 13 Apr
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And so everybody would leave the meeting equally frustrated, but for different reasons.
The strategic people would go, we didn't give enough time to that strategic thing.
The administrative people go, we didn't decide on when the Christmas party is gonna be.
Somebody else would say, we never really wrestled that issue to the ground.
And I thought, oh, you can't do it at once.
And in Death by Meeting, what I decided was the problem isn't meetings, it's bad meetings.
And that we've all come to accept that, oh, they're just bad.
Like CEOs ago, yeah, I hate them too.
It's just corporate pants.
We just do it.
And I realized, no, no, no, no, no.
It is the number one thing you do if you're a leader.
The number one activity is running a meeting.
And which sounds so depressing to leaders, but I remember saying, if you were a football player and you told me, oh, I just hate games and practices, or you were a surgeon, it's like operating these people, I hate it.
Or if you're a teacher, it's like, if it weren't for the classroom, I would love this job.
When you're a leader, meetings are where you lead.
It's where you make decisions, where you get people hooked in, where you debate, where you orchestrate the company.
And we had an entire thing called business where the people running business hated meetings.
And so what I realized was it's your fault that they're boring and mine as a leader, and it's your fault for confusing them all and trying to do a bunch of things at once.
So I came up with this model that just said, you need to have four different meetings.
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