Rebecca Hinds discusses the simple shifts that turn meetings from time-wasters into value-generators.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why most meetings don’t feel like “real work”

2) Why every organization needs a “meeting doomsday”

3) The easy agenda fixes that save so much time

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— ABOUT REBECCA —

Rebecca Hinds is a leading expert on organizational behavior and the future of work. She holds a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University. Rebecca founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, first-of-their-kind corporate think tanks dedicated to conducting cutting-edge research on the future of work.

She is a trusted advisor to companies navigating the challenges of modern work—from meeting overload and hybrid dysfunction to the messy realities of AI adoption and organizational change.

• Book: Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done

• LinkedIn: Rebecca Hinds

• Website: RebeccaHinds.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Glean

• Book: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant

• Book: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao

• Book: The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao

• Past episode: 492: Making Meetings Work with J. Elise Keith

• Past episode: 684: Achieving More by Tapping into the Science of Less with Leidy Klotz

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1156: How to Make Great Meetings that Stop Wasting Time with Rebecca Hinds

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1156: How to Make Great Meetings that Stop Wasting Time with Rebecca Hinds