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How to Defend Yourself Against the Meeting-Industrial Complex

Why your work calendar is more packed than ever and tips on maximizing productivity in and around those meeting blocks.

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You might be reading this while you’re in a meeting—or maybe you’re enjoying your few precious pre- or post-meeting minutes, minutes you know you should be using to bang out the action items from yesterday’s meetings. Such is life amid the meeting-industrial complex, a topic Derek Thompson covers in The Atlantic this week.

Thompson, along with the authors of the stories below, feels your pain. Luckily, they have more than a few ideas on how to make the most of your working hours through speedier meetings, attacking your own deep work when your day is stacked, and politely declining the meetings that really could be emails. So tell your colleagues you’re out of pocket and will have to circle back on the deliverables—for now you’re drilling down on some mission-critical, game-changing learnings. (Related: Please Stop Using These Phrases in Meetings.)

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