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How to navigate team calendar chaos when everyone defends their meetings

Our team calendar is completely insane with back-to-back meetings and everyone complains about it but when I suggest we audit what we actually need versus what we schedule people get defensive about their recurring meetings. I think we're all protecting our territory instead of protecting our time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your team is trapped in a meeting culture where individual ownership of time blocks prevents collective examination of shared time.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined calendar — whose time is it??”

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