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Want to Get Smarter? Science Says Stop Holding So Many Meetings



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Mark Cuban hates meetings. Hates meetings. “… for the past twenty years,” Cuban says, “I don’t do meetings or phone calls. I’ll do a meeting if you’re going to write me a check. I’ll do a meeting if there’s a really good reason to help close a deal. Other than that, it’s email.”Why? Meetings typically take a few minutes to stagger to a start. They usually drift to a close. To Cuban, all that chatter — while certainly pleasant — is unproductive. And makes him less effective.Science agrees, albeit for a different reason. According to a 2012 study published in …

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