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Hello and welcome to episode 58, got John Polstra and I have imagining

that you've probably from time to time had a meeting that was suboptimal that

felt maybe like a waste of time or maybe you were facilitating that meeting

and wasting other people's time. Ooh, that's uncomfortable. Well, this guest

John Polstra has a thing or two to say about meetings and has developed some particular ideas and

perspectives and frameworks and acronyms and stuff to share along the way.

So you're going to learn one, when you do versus don't need a meeting.

2.

How to blame the agenda to advance your agenda.

And 3, the Cat and Woot frameworks

for developing excellent meeting agendas.

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links of things mentioned, you'll

find that over at awesome at your job.com slash eep 58 or if you'd like to read those

takeaways in an email in which you can absorb the wisdom in under two minutes.

Sign up for the Gold Nugget email list over there at awesome at your job.

Here's a bit about John. John Polstra is a manager of the engineering program team at Red Hat Inc.

the world's most successful open source software company.

John is passionate about facilitating the best project meetings,

and he wants to help you do the same.

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