02-28-2026CAREER EVOLUTION

How to design meetings that move things forward (not waste your time)

A framework like Pause-Consider-Act can help you rethink when you meet and how to maximize it.

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I’ll never forget the first time I heard someone say, “This meeting could’ve been an email.” You can probably imagine exactly the voice they said it in (and what their face looked like). You’re probably heard it many times yourself. 

The meeting in question was a project check-in with multiple departments, where we’d spent an........

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