Brave New Work 80. Unsuck Your Next Work Meeting with Sam Spurlin

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: Meetings are the worst. Instead of being a meaningful work tool to help teams strategize efficiently, meetings more often block things—anything—from actually getting done. At The Ready, we’ve got a different method: action meetings.

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans invite longtime member Sam Spurlin on the show to dispense a step-by-step guide to implementing and scaling effective action meetings. They break down the best ways to “get people what they need” and reveal how to keep the action-meeting train chugging along into the future.

(Editor's note: this might be Sam's first appearance on the show, but it won't be his last! He'll return to co-host the Future of HR miniseries with Rodney in 2023, and then Aaron formally passes the co-host baton to him at the start of 2024.)

Get Sam's in-depth guide to Action Meetings.

Learn more about Sam on LinkedIn, or at his website.

Mentioned references:

• CARROT weather
• A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
• Oura Ring
• Hacks, TV show
• Joan Rivers
• "tactical meeting"
• The Ready’s OS Canvas
• self-management: BNW Ep. 79 with Michael Y. Lee
• Around (Miro meeting tool): https://www.around.co/
• "Tom Thomison episode": BNW Ep. 16 with Thomas Thomison

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