Another Meeting That Could Have Been an Email: Redesigning How We Work Together with Rebecca Hinds

About this episode

Rebecca Hinds discusses redesigning meetings to enhance organizational culture and communication.

Rebecca Hinds, researcher, organizational designer, and author of Your Best Meeting Ever joins the Alan Briggs for a conversation that is long overdue in most, if not all organizations. Alan has threatened to write a book about meetings for years. He no longer has to. Why? Rebecca wrote it. After 15 years studying how humans communicate and coordinate at work, Rebecca brings both the research and the practical frameworks to help leaders stop letting meetings kill their culture — and start designing them as the powerful, expensive tool they actually are. If you've ever sat in a meeting wondering why you're there, or felt the creeping guilt of a calendar so packed with meetings that the real work gets squeezed into the margins, this one is for you. What You'll Learn in This Episode: Why we keep having bad meetings even when we know they're not working — and the visibility bias that drives the cycle What "calendar carnage" is and why it's not just a scheduling problem — it's a fundamental communication problem Meeting Doomsday — the 48-hour calendar cleanse that forces every recurring meeting to earn its spot back Why AI is making meetings worse, not better — and the specific…

People in this episode

Host: Alan Briggs

Guest: Rebecca Hinds

Topics covered

• meetings
• organizational design
• communication
• leadership
• AI in meetings

Keywords

• meetings
• organizational design
• communication problems
• AI
• brainstorming

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Your Best Meeting Ever

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