Andy Grove’s (former Chairman and CEO of Intel) guidance is no more than eight. In his book “High Output Management”, he devoted a whole chapter on how to make meetings productive. Rather than looking at meetings as a waste of time, he suggested we use the time spent in them as efficiently as possible. Even though his book was written back in 1983, a lot of it is still relevant today. In this edited extract from his book, I have put together the list of suggestions from Andy on how to make meetings productive. I hope you will find it useful too.
In his view, there are two basic kinds of meeting: process-oriented meeting and mission-oriented meeting. With process-oriented meeting, knowledge is shared and information is exchanged. Essentially, it is discussion that takes place on a recurring basis. And there are three types of process-oriented meetings: one-on-one’s, staff meeting, and operational review. Mission oriented meeting is to solve a specific problem which frequently produces a decision. Read More...
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