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Scenario

How to challenge meeting culture when your team is stuck in shallow collaboration

Our team lead keeps scheduling 'quick sync' meetings that turn into hour-long sessions where we rehash the same surface-level issues instead of diving into the real problems. Everyone complains privately but no one wants to challenge the meeting culture and I'm worried we're optimizing for looking busy rather than being effective.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group that mistakes gathering for progress and motion for direction.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Shallow work and the attention economy?”

Peri

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