1156: How to Make Great Meetings that Stop Wasting Time with Rebecca Hinds
How to Be Awesome at Your JobShow Notes
Rebecca Hinds discusses the simple shifts that turn meetings from time-wasters into value-generators.
— YOU’LL LEARN — 1) Why most meetings don’t feel like “real work” 2) Why every organization needs a “meeting doomsday” 3) The easy agenda fixes that save so much time
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— ABOUT REBECCA — Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work. She holds a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University. Rebecca founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, first-of-their-kind corporate think tanks dedicated to conducting cutting-edge research on the future of work. She is a trusted advisor to companies navigating the challenges of modern work—from meeting overload and hybrid dysfunction to the messy realities of AI adoption and organizational change. • Book: Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done • LinkedIn: Rebecca Hinds • Website: RebeccaHinds.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Tool: Glean • Book: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant • Book: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao • Book: The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao • Past episode: 492: Making Meetings Work with J. Elise Keith • Past episode: 684: Achieving More by Tapping into the Science of Less with Leidy Klotz
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