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No Meetings 6 Days a Week?

Name: No Meetings 6 Days a Week?
Uploaded: 2024-08-17T21:00:32+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker introduces the concept of "manager time," a dedicated block of at least half a day (often a specific day like Monday)…

17 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker introduces the concept of "manager time," a dedicated block of at least half a day (often a specific day like Monday) reserved for making decisions through a high density of short, focused meetings. The speaker advises stacking as many meetings as possible within this block, keeping each meeting brief and targeted to maximize decision throughput. By assigning a fixed day for such meetings, colleagues learn to prepare in advance and only request time when truly necessary, reducing interruptions and improving overall efficiency. The speaker also emphasizes assessing urgency—only business‑critical issues merit immediate attention—so that the manager’s time is protected for strategic decision‑making.

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People tell me, Alex, they're like, yo, bro, I don't have time. You have time where the objective that you have is to make as many decisions as you can and have as many meetings as possible. I call that manager time. There are blocks of days, which is usually a half day or more, where this is manager time. And so I stack as many meetings as I possibly can. And you want the meetings to be as short as you can, as targeted as you can, so you can make as many decisions as possible. Sounds painful. I'm like, just destroy me. Just put everything you possibly can. And if someone's like, hey, do you got a second on Tuesday? I do mine on Mondays. Yeah, next Monday. How urgent is it? Is the business going to end? No, it's not urgent. In the beginning, there are people who are going to want to interrupt you, but very quickly they're like, oh, Monday's the only time that I can talk to them. Guess what happens? They start preparing to talk to you. And so then they think ahead of what are all the things that I'm going to need, you know, looked at this week so they can make decisions ahead of time. And so you can be way more efficient with your time.