stop wasting valuable time

Harvard Business Review
September 2004

The vast majority of top management teams spend too little time together and fritter away too much of it on a hodgepodge of incidentals.

All of the members bring items to the agenda, as if they were Secret Santas at an office party. Seemingly urgent problems get the most attention while important issues get pushed to the next meeting.

Research by Marakon shows that most top teams systematically shortchange the big conversations and big decisions –formulating strategy, allocating capital, weighing the competing claims of business units.

The research, fortunately, uncovers some exceptional companies that have learned to use top management’s time like the scarce resource it is.

 

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