Why Meetings Suck and How to Fix Them | WorkLife with Adam Grant

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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WorkLife with Adam Grant, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective is back! This season, Adam takes a look at how to find meaningful work and how to make jobs more energizing. In this first episode: meetings. Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus — and meeting overload kills productivity. So why do we have so many of them — and is a better world possible? Adam investigates the science of improving meetings and explores how workplaces are fighting meeting bloat. Available transcripts for WorkLife can be found at go.ted.com/WLtranscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:10.0	Hi everyone, it's Medupa.
0:12.3	We have something different for you today.
0:15.4	Work life with Adam Grant is back for its sixth season.
0:20.1	On Work Life, Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside the minds of some
0:26.0	of the world's most unusual professionals to explore the science of making work not suck.
0:33.6	This season, Adam looks into questions like, is unlimited vacation a successful policy
0:40.2	in preventing burnout?
0:42.7	How can we actually rest and recover from work?
0:46.9	What does good mentorship look like?
0:49.7	And how do we tap into our hidden potential?
0:53.8	You're about to hear the first episode of the season.
0:57.0	If you enjoy it, check out Work Life with Adam Grant, wherever you're listening to this
1:02.7	podcast.
1:07.4	Support for this podcast comes from BCG.
1:10.0	There are so many urgent questions in the minds of business leaders today.
1:13.8	What will the economy look like in six months?
1:16.4	Should you be investing in a generative AI for your company?
1:19.6	Is the metaverse real or just heightened?
1:21.9	And what can you do to hold on to your best employees?
1:25.4	The so-what from BCG is a podcast featuring award-winning British journalist Georgie Frost
1:30.4	interviewing BCG's leading thinkers and doers to get you the answers.
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