Steve Jobs was notorious for his long walking meetings, a practice that has
been adopted by Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey as well.
Marissa Mayer and Richard Branson Hold 10-Minute
Meetings
Why do all meetings seem to default to 30 minutes or one hour? It’s almost as if
people choose that duration because that’s the default time block in the Outlook
calendar. And we all know that work tends to fill up the space allocated to it.
In an interview with Bloomberg Business in 2006, when Marissa Mayer was
still with Google (she now runs Yahoo), she told the interviewer that she holds
up to 70 meetings a week. The only way she can cram them all in is to break
down the “30-minute” block into small meetings, sometimes as few as five or
ten minutes each.
Virgin founder Richard Branson often talks about his aversion to meetings. In
a blog post he shared:
It’s very rare that a meeting on a single topic should need to last more
than 5-10 minutes.
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