2 month ago
Linkorama : Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game - Don’t crank out tasks — learn to work with a deeper focus. Don’t plan and hold meetings and form committees — just launch the software or product or service and keep improving it. Don’t spend time organizing — you’ve got more important thing
# copy
3 month ago
Linkorama : What Meeting? - The important stuff is the informal stuff.
# copy
4 month ago
gleuschk : Sciencewomen : A reckless proposal, or "Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way." - thoughts about childcare and professional travel. I wonder if my dept would reimburse for childcare?
# copy
4 month ago
gleuschk : The World's Fair : Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly. - unnecessary math.
# copy4 month ago
gleuschk : AMS Manual for Special Session Organizers - deadline about 9 months ahead of time for the national meeting
# copy8 month ago
nelson : Laptopless meetings - LA Times article on distractions in meetings, including a quote from me!
# copy
12 month ago
Linkorama : Dotmocracy - Dotmocracy is an established facilitation method for collecting and prioritizing ideas among a large number of people.
# copy
15 month ago
43folders : Rands In Repose: The Laptop Herring - via Daring Fireball
factoryjoe : Rands In Repose: The Laptop Herring - great advice on how to handle laptops in meetings... "every meeting should fight to be kept alive" Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: meetings, work, office, productivity
Linkorama : The Laptop Herring - The problem is that everyone attending this laptop-laden clusterfuck is subconsciously hearing “Hey, in this meeting, it’s A-OK to waste people’s time.”
# copy
18 month ago
gleuschk : Shut the Fuck Up, or how to act better in meetings - if only I could get math departments to read this -- the context is different, but the points are the same
# copy
22 month ago
Linkorama : Meetings make us dumber, study shows - Brainstorming sessions backfire when group thinking clouds decisions
# copy
23 month ago
deusx : It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings - "This is my attempt to communicate some of the previously tacit knowledge on the benefits and consequences of common practices for daily stand-ups"
# copy
25 month ago
Linkorama : Meeting After Meeting - It is a common misconception that meetings ever decide things. Meeting never decide things - they only make official those decisions which have been taken before the meeting. Of all the things I have learnt this maybe the most important.
# copy
34 month ago
merlinmann : Time Wasters Need Not Apply | Performancing.com - I confess to feeling like a jerk when I do this with people I don't know well, but I swear to God it works. Agenda + bullets + time limit = good call.
# copy
34 month ago
kayodeok : 9 tips for running more productive meetings - For the love of God, please respect your poor colleagues' time
jkottke : 9 tips for running more productive meetings - You want to see the best list of advice ever, one that might save your career or remaining sanity? 9 tips for running more productive meetings.
# copy
37 month ago
Andy Baio : Meet with Approval - lo-fi meeting scheduler
joshua : MeetWithApproval - nice app for converging on a meeting
plasticbag : MeetWithApproval.com - "Arrange a meeting or event. Work out which day is good for everyone & keep track of who is coming." - This is a lovely piece of kit - pretty easy to assemble, but really elegant. This would be a charming component of a larger social calendaring enterprise.
# copy
37 month ago
Linkorama : E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago - At Dresdner, Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressive adopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meeting times have been whacked in half.
plasticbag : "E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago" - Business Week talks about how the abuse of e-mail as broadcast has led to its redundancy and looks towards IM, wikis and blogs as replacements... - It's all pretty obvious and the tools are useful. I wouldn't be without a decent workplace wiki now. But the aggravating thing is that internal e-mail only got so useless because of corporate insistence on broadcast messaging. Idiots.
François Nonnenmacher : E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago
# copy
43 month ago
WillPate : Thinking Faster: What's your agenda? - Great post, Ean Jackson has convinced me to never hold a meeting without an agenda anymore
# copy
