The 5 Types of Meetings You Need to Be Having

EntreLeadership

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Management, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	If you feel like your calendar is full, but your business isn't moving forward, there's
0:10.3	a good chance that meetings are your problem.
0:13.9	You're sitting all day in meetings that run long, go off topic, and don't accomplish much.
0:20.2	And when you're already strapped for time
0:22.2	that's not just frustrating it's expensive that's why some of the most
0:27.2	successful leaders in the world are actually skeptical of meetings Elon
0:32.4	Musk says you should only call a meeting if it's absolutely necessary and if if you're not contributing to the meeting, you should leave.
0:40.4	Steve Jobs believed meetings shouldn't be longer than 30 minutes,
0:44.6	with only two to three key agenda items to keep you focused.
0:48.7	And Jeff Bezos is clear that meetings should be small enough
0:51.7	that two pizzas could feed the entire room. Different leaders,
0:56.3	same principle. Meetings should help the work get done, not become the work. So today,
1:03.0	Entry Leadership's head coach John Falcons will show you what it takes to run productive meetings
1:08.4	so you can stop wasting your time
1:11.1	and start making progress.
1:12.6	Do you ever walk out of a meeting thinking,
1:15.1	this could have been an email?
1:16.8	I gotta be honest with you.
1:18.0	This is something that we still have to work at.
1:20.8	Meetings are easy to call, but they're not always the best way to go.
1:24.4	Most meetings fail because there's no structure,
1:27.2	no clear purpose, no agenda,
	...

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