Peter Otto, product strategy and design director at Condeco, on why business meetings will never stop happening.
Two of the tech world’s biggest names have been talking on the subject of meetings in the last week and their tips couldn’t be more different.
First Tesla boss Elon Musk told his employees that they should walk out of long meetings and hang up on boring calls. Then Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, explained that he prefers to start his meetings with half an hour of silence, where executives are forced to read a six-page memo at the start of every congress, before a discussion ensues.
Bezos also shared his “two pizza rule” for meetings. This does not mean that he won’t go to a meeting that does not offer tomato and mozzarella sustenance, but rather that he won’t go to a meeting where two pizzas are not enough to feed everyone present....