Boss Class 5 - Meetings: The clown car
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What if all the meetings in your calendar disappeared overnight? Tia Silas, Chief HR Officer of Shopify, an e-commerce firm, tells Andrew Palmer what happened when they tried just that. Claire Hughes-Johnson, a former COO of Stripe, offers a practical guide to running meetings. And we eavesdrop on the weekly meeting at The Economist, with lessons from Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, on how she encourages constructive debate.
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| 0:00.0 | Boss Class Season 2 starts on May the 12th. |
| 0:04.2 | Until then, we're making every episode in this first season of Boss Class available for free. |
| 0:10.5 | So share it with your friends and colleagues, and maybe even your boss. |
| 0:15.2 | To hear the new season, you and they will need to subscribe. |
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| 0:25.0 | Ireland's workforce tops the world rankings for flexibility and adaptability. |
| 0:29.6 | Quality is critical to any company driven by innovation and vision. |
| 0:33.8 | It's just one of the reasons 1,800 international businesses, including 14 of the top 15 US technology companies, have established a base here. |
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| 0:51.0 | Learn more at IDA Ireland.com. |
| 0:55.2 | This episode of Boss Class is supported by IDA Ireland. |
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| 1:11.6 | Thank you. and thrive. Visit IDAIreland.com to learn more. The Economist |
| 1:15.6 | Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be |
| 1:29.5 | expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. |
| 1:34.6 | In January 1944, the U.S. wartime intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services, issued what |
| 1:42.2 | it called a simple sabotage field manual. |
| 1:46.0 | It contained all kinds of tips for how ordinary citizens living under Nazi occupation in Europe |
| 1:51.0 | could throw a wrench in the German war effort. |
| 1:54.0 | Some advice involves causing physical damage, but the manual also describes a second, more subtle form of sabotage. |
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