Meeting overload is a structural problem, and in this episode, Mickey Anderson explains why meetings multiply as organizations grow and builds the complete meeting system your leadership team can install this quarter.

You will learn the 3–5 rule for meeting types — how to define a small set of meeting types and stop letting every topic find its own calendar slot. Mickey walks through the five design criteria every meeting type needs: purpose, outcome, cadence, attendees, and decision type. She names the four decision types — collective, consultative, independent, and escalated — and explains why failing to name the type before a discussion starts is where most meeting time gets lost.

You will also get the three roles every meeting requires — facilitator, scribe, and defined mandatory attendees — and the full before, during, and after anatomy that makes meeting discipline real rather than theoretical.

The episode closes with two specific actions: a calendar audit that takes thirty minutes and a ninety-minute leadership team session to define your meeting standards.

If your organization is running too many meetings and getting too little from them, this episode is where that changes.

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