The Meeting is Dead Long Live the Meeting

In this episode, Barrie chats with creative powerhouse Natasha Nass about how her fully remote team transformed their weekly virtual meeting into a non-negotiable highlight of their week. They explore how connection beats control, how rhythm fuels creativity, and what it takes to design meetings that people genuinely enjoy showing up to. A must-listen for leaders who want to make meetings meaningf...

In this episode I chat to Dr Jean Cooper, a psychologist, adventurer, and long-time student of the unseen forces that influence people, teams, and organisations. Jean’s work is rooted in the pioneering legacy of the Tavistock Institute, where he learned to turn the magnifying glass inward, using himself as an instrument to detect, contain, and work with the often-unbearable dynamics playing out be...

In most companies, you can broadly categorise people into those who create (makers) and those who coordinate (managers). While this isn’t a perfect divide, most people in an organisation often lean more toward one side than the other, in how they structure their work. Some roles blend both, but understanding these two modes of work can still help us design better, more thoughtful meetings, and eve...

Have you ever sat in a meeting and thought, "I could be folding laundry, watching paint dry, or literally staring at a wall, and it would be a more productive use of my time?" Yeah, me too. And I’ve spoken to enough people to know that we are not alone. Since the pandemic, it feels like meetings have multiplied like rabbits in a carrot patch, and our survival as productive humans is at stake! Dram...

Do I really need another another meeting? Real deliverables don't happen in a meeting, and yet we're spending 60% of our time in meetings. In this episode Barrie takes a look at how using Synchronous v Asynchronous as a filter, can help to minimise the amount of time we spend in meetings. Let's reclaim our time! Let's use meetings only when they truly matter. We can be more efficient, more product...