The Default Meeting Cadence Persistence
Meetings established for one purpose continue long after that purpose has been served. The default meeting cadence persistence describes how recurring meetings survive the conditions that created them, occupying calendars with obligations that no one would create today. The professional who periodically audits recurring meetings and eliminates those that have outlived their function reclaims time for work that matters.
The persistence is organizational inertia in its purest form. Each meeting had a reason when established—a project to coordinate, a crisis to manage, a decision to track. But projects conclude, crises resolve, and decisions become implemented, while the meetings continue. Attendees participate out of habit rather than necessity.
Auditing meetings requires asking whether each recurring commitment still serves a current need. For those developing efficient professional development strategies, meeting audit distinguishes those who control their calendars from those whose calendars control them. Our meeting framework provides audit approaches.
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