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Meetings Suck—Here are the Science-Backed Ways to Fix Them
39 minutes Posted Apr 20, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Intro
Why do meetings suck?
Meeting Doomsday
Determining which meetings are actually useful
Considering remote employees
Making better meeting agendas
How to stop attendance inflation
How to manage the dominant speaker in a meeting
The “meeting-free day” debate
The value of a pre-read
Game: So Crazy It Just Might Work
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Show notes
In this episode, Kaila and Kyle are joined by Rebecca Hinds, PhD, author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done. Rebecca breaks down the science behind why meetings so often fail—and shares research-backed tactics to decide which meetings are actually worth having, and how to design them for better outcomes.
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