Your best meeting ever: Why meetings are broken and how to fix them with Dr. Rebecca Hinds

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services published a manual teaching ordinary citizens how to sabotage the enemy from within. One of the tactics: hold unproductive meetings. Nearly a century later, Dr. Rebecca Hinds is dedicating her career to studying why meetings fail – and what it actually costs when they do.Topic Highlights:– The WWII sabotage manual that became standard business practice and makes meeting culture work against you– The 4D CEO test: a two-part filter for deciding whether any given meeting should exist at all– Why AI is making meetings worse, not better, and the one rule that changes that– The "meeting doomsday" intervention: what it is and why it works– The Babble Hypothesis: who's actually perceived as a leader in meetingsGuest Bio:Dr. Rebecca Hinds is an organizational psychologist, author of Your Best Meeting Ever, founder of the Work Innovation Lab at Asana, and founder of the Work AI Institute at Glean. Episode Links:Your Best Meeting EverThe Surprising Science of MeetingsThe Simple Sabotage Field ManualAsana Anatomy of Work IndexConnect with Us:theliftpod.comLet’s stay in touchSubscribe to The LiftFind Ben online: LinkedIn | InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.