The meeting that quietly stops being worth it


There is a moment in the life of almost every recurring meeting where it crosses a line from being worth the time it costs to being a quiet drain on the team's cognitive capacity. The moment usually passes without anyone noticing, and the meeting continues running for months or years after the line has been crossed, because deleting a meeting feels more disruptive than letting it run. Research from MIT Sloan and other organizational behavior programs has been mapping this pattern for years....