Science says your boss should talk less in meetings

Research suggests listening more while talking less.

The short version

• Killing aimless meetings can help, too.
• Close to 1 billion meetings take place each day around the world.
• CEOs spend nearly three-quarters of their workdays in meetings.

What happened

Planning for and spearheading meetings eats up the lion’s share of managers’ time. In much of the industrialized world, meetings are both the metronomes and menaces of people’s working lives.

Why it matters

In one experiment, Lehmann-Willenbrock and colleagues extracted data from video-recorded meetings to study how leader communication affects team interaction during decision-making.

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