Puri: Most corporate status meetings are just performative progress theater
Shaan Puri · 7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t · Sep 2, 2026 · at 15:56
Shaan Puri discusses corporate management tactics, analyzing why the CEO of Siemens refuses to schedule recurring catch-up meetings with direct reports.
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“Which is, if you think about, like, if you've ever been in a company, a lot of, like, the meetings you have are really theater, right? It's progress theater. Like, I would like to put on a little play for you of how good I'm doing, and then you sit in the back, and you give me a little, you know, theater clap back to me, and I feel good, and then I go on my way, and we've both just kind of wasted an hour of each other's time. It's not, The work isn't getting done there. That's just basically like, you don't trust me enough to just do the thing, and I don't trust you enough to know that I can just show you the work, and that's enough for you to understand my value. So we'll, we'll tap dance for each other.”
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