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Some people are talkative and tend to wander off into Story Telling

Some people want to engage in Problem Solving immediately

Other topics of discussion (e.g., design discussions, gossip, etc.) should be deferred until after the meeting.

questions should be reversed in order to emphasise the correct order of importance:

Any impediments in your way? What are you working on today? What have you finished since yesterday?

A long, droning meeting is a

to start the day

Charging towards a common goal is difficult when:

center on meetings alone.

When disorganization and uncertainty is the norm, clarification and re-clarification is needed to regularly keep a team focused and working together

Information isn’t located in a centralized place so it isn’t easily accessible to everyone.

It’s just easier to ask someone else because they are a Subject Matter Expert (SME). Both.

2. Interruptions encourage multi-tasking, which is bad

1. Most interruptions are trivial and could be avoided

it takes most people 16 minutes to refocus after sending an email while doing other work

To perform at your productive best, you need your best focus, something that’s unachievable when you’re constantly interrupted

3. Recovering from interruptions takes longer than you think

Between email, meetings, and interruptions (both active and passive),

Pro-Tip: Only turn on email and instant message when you need to use them

To combat such interruption, check these tools 3 times a day – when you first get into the office in the morning, around lunch, and before going home for the night – and turn them off otherwise.

reduce the rate at which interruptions occur

consideration of the system as a whole