Cameron Herold argues that meetings are poor because neither leaders nor participants receive training on how to run or participate in them. He lists multiple meeting types (annual planning, quarterly, financial reviews, one-on-ones, Zoom calls) and expands the claim to a broader lack of training in core managerial skills—hiring, coaching, time/project management, and conflict resolution—arguing that teaching these skills would make business easier.
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L10 is just one kind of meeting. You've got annual planning meetings, quarterly planning meetings, financial review meetings, one on one coaching meetings, zoom calls like, there's all types of meetings. But the reasons meetings suck is almost none of you have ever had training on how to run meetings. And you have managers and leadership team people who run meetings every single day, and they have no training on how to run meetings. And then you have employees that are showing up at meetings that don't know how to participate in them because no one's trained them. So. So of course meetings suck because we suck at running meetings. None of us would ever send our kid off to play little league baseball without teaching them how to hold the bat or toss the ball or catch the ball. Because they'd come home from baseball and they'd go, daddy, baseball sucks. Like, no, Johnny, you suck at baseball. I can't stand listening to entrepreneurs complain about stuff, knowing that first principle is the root cause is you've had no training to do it. The reason business is difficult is you've had no training on interviewing people. Maybe you've done it 100 times, but you might have done it wrong all 100 times. You coach people one on one, but you probably never had any training on coaching. You run time management and project management, and you execute meetings. You deal with conflict with no training. There's these layers of skills that if we give our people those skills, it would make business easier.
