#51: How To Run A Meeting

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Meetings. In the early days of a company, meetings are rare. But then before you know it, 15 people turn into 30 people — and you’re spending more of your time in meetings than you were before and getting nothing done. That’s exactly what has happened to us at Drift over the last few months (going from 15 to 30). And before we get to the point where people are spending more time in meetings than actually making things, David shared a memo with the team on our company wiki titled "Meetings at Drift.” So that’s what we’re talking about on this episode of Seeking Wisdom — how we deal with meetings, and the guardrails we use for meetings at Drift. Ways to support Seeking Wisdom if you’re a fan of the show: 1. Subscribe. 2. Leave us a five-star review. Here's how: bit.ly/5-Stars-Only. 3. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. 4. Learn more about Drift at Drift.com.

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0:00.0	Okay, this is on.
0:03.6	So, today on Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about, you know what we're going to talk about?
0:10.1	No idea, but I'm fired up.
0:12.5	We're going to talk about meetings.
0:15.5	Meetings.
0:16.3	That is like the international sound of having a meeting.
0:20.1	Yeah, and when you talk about meetings, this is the international sound of having a meeting yeah when you talk about meetings this is the
0:21.9	international reply really a meeting so in true seeking wisdom fashion this is legitimately off
0:31.6	the top you wrote something on our company wiki last night and i was okay, we had this time on the counter to record a podcast today.
0:40.5	And I was like, I don't know.
0:41.5	Oh, we got a backlog of ideas.
0:43.1	Here's what we're going to do.
0:44.9	Oh, I saw this post.
0:46.7	It's about why you hate meetings so much.
0:49.5	So let's do a seeking wisdom on how to run your company without meetings.
1:12.5	Or how to run very few meetings that are super effective. Yeah. So first of all, I have the bullets from this post that I want to share with everybody, but I want you to, why did you feel the need to write a post? Like this is something that you said you thought about multiple companies. It always comes up. Why did you write a post at this stage of our company about meetings?
1:12.9	Yeah.
1:20.2	So I wrote this post yesterday because we're hitting that point in the company where it's like there's no turning back, right? So we're around 30 people at Drift now.
1:24.1	That's probably that's double of what we were at the beginning of the year.
1:45.2	And we'll probably double again this coming we'll double again this year at the very least and so we're starting to grow and once you grow beyond that small group of people that have been together for a long time meetings have a way they're insidious of creeping into the culture and once they're in they're impossible to get out.
1:50.0	Here's the intro to this post. I wanted to pull it out. See, this is a quick post to discuss something that's been on my mind for a long time. Generally, I'm a hater of meetings, mostly because
1:54.9	very few of them are run properly and because as a company grows, they seem to benefit only the
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