#draft ## General principles Many meetings are a waste of time. Don’t waste people’s time. Meetings that are worth your time need an objective with a clear agenda to hit that objective. Skip meetings that don’t. Understand what type of meeting you need and plan accordingly. ## Good Meetings ## Top 3 [The Secret of the Weekplan](https://calv.info/the-secret-of-the-weekplan) I’ve found it very useful to bookend each week with a lightweight process that I call Top 3. The goal is to list out the top 3 things I plan to accomplish that week. This isn’t an exhaustive list of all the tasks — it’s a forcing function of focus. ## Types of Meetings The type of meeting you are in will dictate how you manage it. ## Decision making Questions to pose The What & Why: Is everyone aligned on the problem? The How: Is everyone aligned on the solution? The When: Is everyone aligned on the timeline? The Who: Is everyone aligned the people who owns driving the solution and who is going to tell us we’re done? [https://hbr.org/1967/01/the-effective-decision](https://hbr.org/1967/01/the-effective-decision) ## Retrospective ## Problem-solving ## 1:1 Reduce 1:1 frequency to reflect the product decision frequency. Don’t default to weekly 1:1s unless live decisions are really needed every week. ## Anti Meetings Status updates: 90% of the time these types of meetings should be done asynchronously. The 10% is for customer-facing updates which are really a forum for feedback. ## References [6 types of meetings you need (and 3 you can skip)](https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/types-of-meetings) [A Summary of High Output Management by Andy Grove](https://www.helcim.com/guides/a-summary-of-high-output-management-by-andy-grove/)