Christopher's Meeting Guidelines
Off the back of my last post, Christopher Hawkins has some interesting Guidelines regarding meetings, here’s my favourite:
Christopher’s Meeting Guideline #3: No chairs. This one drives people crazy. I can hear you already – “No chairs?!? Have you lost your mind?!? What about pregnant people? What about the crippled? What about employees who wheelchair bound, do you force them to hang from their hands, you cold-hearted dog?” Obviously one must accommodate team members who have extenuating physical circumstances. But mark my words – stand-up meetings make for short meetings.
Perhaps meetings should just be banned full stop. Everyone seems to hate them after all. And the accomplish very little…
You can view all of Christopher’s Guidelines here