My (mostly) weekly thoughts on leadership, high performance, wellbeing and more.

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Madeleine Shaw Madeleine Shaw

How to escape from meetings overload

In nearly all of the dozens of workplaces we’ve studied, helped, or worked at, we’ve found that meetings in particular create wasteful and soul-crushing friction”…

A new Harvard Business Review piece reports research finding what we all already know to be true – and importantly, offers some solutions.

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Madeleine Shaw Madeleine Shaw

Lowering the bar

This week I'm sharing a blog from before-times (February 2020), on the topic of lowering the bar. It's an oldie, but still very relevant.

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