Meetings: Are They Worth It?
I tweeted recently that, inside a corporation, it would be handy to have, for example...
An Outlook plugin that automatically edits every meeting request, and appends a few characters to the title:
If the meeting request was for 10 people, for 120 minutes, it would calculate "10 people times 2 hours times (some reasonable rate per hour, e.g. $89)" and then it would append "for $1780" to the time of the meeting hence:
Project Kick Off
would become:
Project Kick Off for $1780!
(The exclamation would only be added if the dollar amount was above some configuration value.)
Or better yet:
Project Kick Off for $1780, so make sure it's worth it!
And, although it was not an original idea, I saw a few people in agreement.
In the past I've seen some "passive-aggressive" tools that perform a similar calculation, giving attendees a calculator to continuously measure their mounting frustration: but I think my idea is more straight-forward "aggressive-aggressive".
Initially it would be hampered by people feeling defensive, but once the underlying truth has been internalized people can (I believe) move forward and be both: less wasteful and more productive.
As always, I reserve the right to change my mind in the morning.
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