MeetingCost · Research
A small publication about the cost of meetings.
Data, frameworks, and opinion from our editors and a handful of very patient practitioners. Short when it can be, long when it has to be, always cited.
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Case study·8 min
The Amazon six-pager, explained.
Jeff Bezos's narrative-memo format is the most-copied meeting practice in corporate America. Most copies miss the point.
Adam Stead · Mar 19
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How Basecamp runs without standing meetings.
37signals's public policy: "No all-hands. No standups. No recurring meetings of any kind." This is how the mechanism holds up — and where it stops working.
Adam Stead · Mar 22
→Case study·9 min
How Shopify cut 322,000 meeting hours in six months.
In January 2023 Shopify cancelled every recurring meeting of three-or-more people. Here's what their leadership publicly reported — and what's portable for smaller teams.
Adam Stead · Mar 26
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