meetings 
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Imagine yourself with a calendar requiring you to be in six meetings in a day. More important, how long would it take to realize that there is something wrong with the enterprise when it takes constant meetings to get the job done? And the cost to the company of those meetings? . Board meetings are often killers. .
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 8, 2022
She holds a weekly meeting of her direct reports and asks them to find three important but actionable items for the group to work on if not complete during the following week. This works for live meetings or those using video team meetings. There are three kinds of agile focuses for such group meetings: .
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Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 2, 2022
If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Five-minute meetings cannot be five minutes of anyone talking. What is said in a meeting must stay in the meeting.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 23, 2019
Announce at the start of the meeting that you’d like the board meeting to be “electronics free” including mobile phones, laptops or tablets. Many outside lawyers like to attend board meetings. They all bring laptops and they all spend much of the time in the board meeting doing other email.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2018
Before the Meeting There is a lot of controversy / angst over whether to send a deck in advance or not. Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. During the Meeting One last pitch for why you should send the teaser deck in advance. Poppycock.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Should All of Your Management Team Attend Board Meetings? The age old question for every startup is whom to involve in the board meeting. The reality is that there are some board meetings in which having a broad set of management present is a great idea and there are some meetings where in can be a hindrance.
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