Bring Your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That Is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World

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Mind Your Meetings: Honoring Relationships with Purpose, Presence, and Protocols

Every day in the United States, at least 36 million meetings are held.¹ It’s no surprise to anyone that, in many of these meetings, people bring in unrelated work, produce grade-school-worthy doodles, and even catch up on some ZZZs. Each year, we waste an estimated $37 billion on unproductive meetings,² with executives spending up to 23 hours of their work week in meetings.³

For anyone following the meetings-mania coverage of late, none of this will come as a surprise. It is interesting to note, however, that most people still believe that meetings are fruitful, and they don’t want to give them up.⁴ After all, humans do love to connect. This means that the problem ...