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Meetings are the last resort, not the first option. Five people in a room for an hour isn’t a one hour meeting, it’s a five hour meeting. How often was it worth that? Could you have just written it up instead? Be mindful of the costs and tradeoffs.
14. Meetings Aren’t Free
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Ingredient 3. Solution
Like solutions with no problems, sometimes companies bet on problems with no solution. “We really need to make it easier to find things on the messages section. Customers are complaining about it.”
That’s not ready to pitch or bet on. A problem without a solution is unshaped work. Giving it to a team means pushing research and exploration down to the wrong level, where the skillsets, time limit, and risk profile (thin vs. heavy tailed) are all misaligned.
In 1980, 10,000 people were working at CERN: that’s the place in Switzerland with the Large Hadron Collider (a particle accelerator used to discover new particles) and other goodies. There were countless hardware and software requirements at CERN, and email was the main form of communication. However, it was a mess: when different projects began to collaborate, there needed to be a way for scientists to keep track of everything: results, research teams, phone numbers, etc.
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