Hello, culture leaders. Here is your weekly culture challenge.

I’d like you to go through your calendar and identify every single recurring meeting that exists and think deeply about whether or not they’re necessary, whether or not they need to be as long as they are, whether or not the people that are on that invite are necessary to attend, or if they’re just on there because they’ve been on there for so long, and talk about it with the people in those meetings because oftentimes we over schedule ourselves.

With checkpoints and meetings and Zoom calls that are totally unnecessary and they keep us distracted from the work that we really need to be doing. So we call this a meeting apocalypse. If you’re really willing to risk it, delete every meeting and only reschedule the ones that are absolutely necessary. Tell me how it goes.