Eric is the Founder & CEO of EP Ventures, a private investment and advisory firm helping ambitious CEOs scale their companies, their leadership, and themselves.
He is also the co-author of the book, Ultraproductive, and has 400k+ followers on Linkedin.
Guest Author: Eric Partaker
95% of participants lose their focus during meetings.
Here’s what they do instead:
27% – draw or sketch.
28% – work on other tasks.
31% – play mobile games.
32% – text a friend.
35% – shop online.
38% – browse social media.
39% – read the news.
Sounds like a really effective meeting, right?
Make meetings less draining and more effective,
with this cheat sheet from Victoria Repa:
4 Golden Rules of Effective Meetings
by Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos
🍕 Two-Pizza Rule
Meeting participant numbers impact effectiveness.
Amazon limits meeting participants to 5-9 people,
the number comfortably fed by two pizzas.
🪑 Empty Chair Rule
Jeff Bezos insists on an empty chair in every meeting,
to symbolize the customer.
No value provided to customers = No business.
🚫 No PowerPoint
Bezos banned PowerPoint in favor of 6-page memos.
The standardized memos provide all the context,
details, and ideas participants need to know.
⏳Begin with Silence
Meetings begin with 20 minutes of silent reading.
This ensures all participants are focused,
and quite literally on the same page.
I’ve personally tried these rules and they work.
Please test drive them yourself.
Steal this cheat sheet to supercharge your meetings.
And start delivering incredible results like Amazon.
How do you make your meetings effective?
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