Meetings Don’t Have to Suck  🔗 **Source:** [Meetings Don’t Have to Suck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO_4ixp8s9Q) ## Highlights - same time every week... same agenda every meeting and it always ends on time. - Note: 📚 EOS meetings pair a fixed agenda with a hard stop · - Toby describing the EOS meeting template he's rolling out at the Mighty Mo. - Matters because chronic overrun is named as one of the specific reasons meetings are hated; a hard stop directly targets that complaint. · #atom/literature/h1 - I'm getting different answers from different people. Oh, it's going great... The next guy is like, no, it's going off the rails. - Note: 📚 Team meetings catch status gaps 1:1s hide · - Toby's counter-example to Kurt's 1:1-heavy Suzuki model. - Matters because it's the strongest concrete evidence in the episode against relying solely on individual check-ins for status visibility. · #atom/literature/h2 - perceived emergencies push everything down but there's no... great triage system to say... let's think about where this emergency fits amongst our other priorities. - Note: 📚 Perceived urgency crowds out actual priority without triage · - Toby, connecting the meeting-agenda discussion to *Tyranny of the Urgent* and time-blocking. - Matters as the conceptual bridge between meeting hygiene and broader prioritization discipline. · #atom/literature/h3 - Meeting structure should match decision scope, not team size - Note: Holds when: the team has enough shared context to make "scope of decision" legible in advance (i.e., someone can actually pre-rank what's important, as EOS requires). · - [[Tyranny of the Urgent]] — because extends (urgent/important triage is the upstream discipline this meeting-sizing rule depends on) · #atom/zettel/z1 - Look into EOS's Level 10 meeting template directly (primary source, not secondhand via this podcast) to compare against the version Kurt and Toby describe — https://www.eosworldwide.com/ #xref - Note: ✏️ Fleeting capture #atom/fleeting/f1 - Track whether Toby reports back on this podcast in future episodes about whether the EOS rollout holds past the first few meetings (discipline-decay risk both hosts flagged) #xref - Note: ✏️ Fleeting capture #atom/fleeting/f2 - frame it as one illustrative example of "go where people with resources gather," not as a validated tactic. - Note: 🔍 Fallacy: Hasty Generalization #fallacy/hasty-generalization