When people reach out to me to meet without an obvious business context I tend to be quite lax about my standards (it’s them who asked for my time, I am not going to also put in 30 minutes to prepare for the meeting).
Not sure whether that’s what you are running into, but I have a huge amount of variance in how much effort I put into different meetings.
Hey thanks for your thoughts! I’m not sure what you mean by “obvious business context”, but I’m either meeting friends / family (not business) or colleagues / community members (business).
Is there a third group that I’m missing?
If you’re actually talking about the second group, I wonder how much your and their productivity would be improved if you were less lax about it?
When people reach out to me to meet without an obvious business context I tend to be quite lax about my standards (it’s them who asked for my time, I am not going to also put in 30 minutes to prepare for the meeting).
Not sure whether that’s what you are running into, but I have a huge amount of variance in how much effort I put into different meetings.
Hey thanks for your thoughts! I’m not sure what you mean by “obvious business context”, but I’m either meeting friends / family (not business) or colleagues / community members (business).
Is there a third group that I’m missing?
If you’re actually talking about the second group, I wonder how much your and their productivity would be improved if you were less lax about it?
By ‘obvious business context’ I mean something like “there is a clear business/mission proposition for why I am taking this meeting”.
My guess is mine and their productivity would be reduced because the meetings would be a bunch costlier and I would meet with fewer people.