The Meeting That Should Have Been an Email

A short method for the meeting nobody wanted: how to spot it before it starts, redirect it in the first two minutes, and end it early without offending the person who called it.

Contents

• Spotting the meeting before it starts
• The two-minute redirect
• What to say when you cannot leave
• Ending early without offending anyone
• Preventing the next one from being booked

From the book

The meeting rarely announces itself as unnecessary. It only becomes obvious forty minutes in, which is exactly forty minutes too late.