Back in the day, I remember there was a meeting that I hosted, and I didn't understand why.

I was like, why is nobody talking? Why is everybody contributing in this?

We were trying to essentially build a new strategy.

And I was like, why am I the only one talking? I'm so frustrated.

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I'm going to talk about is how to run meetings without wanting to kill yourself.

So I want to make this because I've had a lot of discussions recently with CEOs about meetings

and meeting cadences and should we have meetings, should we not have meetings,

et cetera, et cetera.

And I'll tell you this, is that I know that the average

Americans spends about 65 hours per month in meetings. This is just the average working person.

This isn't even an executive. And so if you look at America as a whole, we spend about

$30 billion a year in payroll on meetings. It's a freaking insane. However, there's a lot of people

that have come to say that meetings are not necessary, that meetings take up too much time,

that meetings are ineffective. Well, I trust Google, and Google did a study on its own business,

and essentially came out with the understanding that meetings in doses are better than not having meetings.

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