“Every meeting over 30 minutes is just bad planning disguised as collaboration”
Agree
- Long meetings mean someone didn't prepare properly
- Parkinson's law: work expands to fill time
- Most decisions can happen in 15 minutes
- Hour-long meetings are status theater not work
Disagree
- Complex problems require deep discussion and time
- Rushing decisions leads to expensive mistakes later
- Building consensus takes more than speed-running agendas
- Some work requires thinking together not apart
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