About the book
Meetings, argues organizational expert Rebecca Hinds, are relics of top-down hierarchies, built to issue orders and display power, and in a digital, collaborative workplace they harm employees and organizations. Her fix is to treat meetings as products, designed with seven product design principles to serve the people in the organization. With stories from Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube and Dropbox, she explains why a company might need a Meeting Doomsday to reset collaboration, how to make meetings a last resort rather than a reflex, which meeting metrics help or hurt, how to add moments of delight, and when technology improves a meeting rather than detracting from it.
Adam Grant put it on The New Books to Refresh Your Thinking in 2026 for its ways of cutting pointless meetings and using shared time well.
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Ways to eliminate pointless gatherings—and make the most of our time together.
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