Howard Lerman: Scheduled one-on-one meetings slow companies down by delaying urgent issues
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Howard Lerman, founder and former CEO of Yext and founder of Roam, argues against standard management dogma regarding recurring weekly one-on-one meetings.
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“People, if they need to talk to you, they queue up the stuff they need to talk to you about until the meeting. So if I have a meeting with Kyle, with Kevin, on Thursday at two o'clock, let's say I need to meet him, and he's got something really urgent to tell Howard, the CEO, guess what? Kevin is going to wait until Thursday at two o'clock to deliver the news, or whatever, work it through. But I think We should just do it right now. People queue up all their items, and it slows you down, because people queue up the things that they need to talk to you about.”
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