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Before Breakfast

Try 40-minute meetings

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Think beyond 30 or 60 minutes to shape a smarter schedule

Transcript

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0:00.0

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest murder mystery in American history.

0:05.6

That's Rob Briner.

0:07.6

Rob called me, Soledette O'Brien, and asked me what I knew about this crime.

0:11.6

Well, ask, who had the motive to assassinate a sitting president.

0:16.0

Then we'll pull the curtain back on the cover-up.

0:20.0

The American people need to know the truth.

0:22.0

Listen to who the truth.

0:22.6

Listen to who killed JFK on the I Heart Radio app,

0:27.0

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:31.3

Welcome to Before. I'm

0:38.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:40.0

Good morning. This is Laura.

0:42.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:45.0

Today's tip is that if you normally default to hour-long meetings,

0:50.0

try experimenting with 40-minute ones instead. You might be surprised at how much better your

0:56.6

schedule feels. Over years of studying people's schedules, I found that people generally default to a certain length of meeting.

1:05.0

For most people that's an hour,

1:07.0

though some people in organizations default to 30 minutes.

1:10.0

But it's all kind of strange if you think about it. I mean not all business or

1:15.1

human matters fit neatly into a 60 minute segment of time. Some stuff takes five

1:20.6

minutes. Some stuff takes all day. But rather than ask how much time a given

1:26.2

interaction will require, whoever's doing the scheduling defaults to the

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