How to Have a Meeting, Google-Style
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 by Frank RocheI saw this reference to How to Run a Meeting Like Google on Micro Persuasion. Interesting points in an interview with Melissa Mayer, vice president of search products at Google, who reportedly holds 70 meetings a week. She offers six pointers on what makes a “good meeting”:
Set a firm agenda. Assign a note-taker. Carve out micro meetings. Hold office hours. Discourage politics, use data. Stick to the clock.
I’d add one more to the mix: Meetings are meetings, and don’t confuse them with actually DOING things. Meetings are about making decisions. As Sarah reminds us here (in the words of her favorite Jedi): Say not, do.
