Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Laura Owens.

And I'm Jan Black.

Tens of millions of meetings are held in the workplace every day.

Studies have indicated that nine out of

10 employees daydream during meetings and 47% say having to attend too many meetings is the number

one time waster at the office. So what can be done to stop the daydreaming and time wasting in

meetings? Our guest on this episode, Dr. Steven Rogelberg, has a wealth of information about that.

He is a professor of organizational science, management, and psychology at the University of

North Carolina, and the author of the book, The Surprising Science of Meetings, How You

Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance. Stephen, thank you so much for joining us. Oh, it's my pleasure

to be here. Tell us how you became interested in the topic of meetings and how the book came about.

Okay. Well, so I'm an organizational psychologist, and as an organizational psychologist, I'm very much interested in understanding and working to improve the world of work.

And my personal interest is identifying things that are most frustrating to people and see if we can find some evidence-based paths forward.

So clearly, meetings fit that bill. It is a real source of frustration,

and I was just incredibly motivated to see what the science says about it and conducted research,

believe it or not, for over 20 years on the topic of meetings. And I reached a point where I was doing a lot of

corporate speaking. I was publishing a lot. Mostly, you know, so I had this juxtaposition of

academic work and then talking to companies. And I said, you know what? I think this is the

right time to put together this book. And so I wrote the book this past year.

It was a lot of fun.

Released it on, I think, January 2nd.

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