Meetings

Meetings are the opposite of work

by Matthew Stibbe on October 28, 2011

Besides Turbine, where this article first appeared, my other business is Articulate Marketing and we work with some of the world’s biggest companies, including Microsoft, HP and Symantec. The one thing I notice at all these companies is that people have diaries crammed with meetings; one after the other. An early-rising friend of mine in [...]

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Unnecessary meetings cost 17 billion pounds a year

by Matthew Stibbe on March 13, 2007

YouGov, the polling company, carried out a survey of 1,200 businesses in the UK and reports that unnecessary face-to-face meetings cost UK businesses £17 billion annually. The survey was carried out on behalf of Polycom, a video and phone conferencing company, so the spin is obvious. I am sceptical of PR-driven market research. (See my [...]

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It’s official: too many meetings make you grumpy

by Matthew Stibbe on May 8, 2006

According to an article in Popular Science, scientists found that meetings were “hassles” that caused stress. I think this is well-known to anyone who has to attend them. One of the joys of being self-employed is that there are no internal meetings and at least client meetings are billable even if they are generally less [...]

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