354: Stop Wasting Time: End Your Meeting-Based Culture Now
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This episode discusses the pitfalls of a meeting-based culture and how to redesign environments for better productivity and decision-making.
Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working Meetings aren’t the enemy. Dependency is. In this episode, I address a problem many PMO and transformation leaders quietly create: operating models where nothing moves unless everyone gathers in a room. Meetings are part of leadership. Alignment, tradeoffs, escalation, and decisions often require conversation. But when calendars become the operating model, execution suffers. If your team spends all day in meetings and all night doing the real work, that’s not a productivity issue. It’s a system design issue. Key Takeaways: Why meeting saturation signals weak governance design. How undefined decision rights create calendar dependency. The difference between decision-driven meetings and status theater. Why execution shifts to nights and weekends in over-scheduled cultures. How to redesign your environment so meetings produce leverage A portfolio review that makes no prioritization decisions isn’t governance. It’s performance. 👉 Press play to hear your next move. When meeting them changes nothing. P.S. If your PMO is struggling to show strategic value…
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