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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Rebecca Hinds: Your Best Meeting Ever
Description: Who gets excited about going to an office meeting? Who dreads them? Rebecca Hinds, Ph.D., is an organization expert who has helped Fortune 500 companies fix their fractured collaboration efforts, and she says that meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today’s digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn’t just inefficient, she says it actively harms employees and organizations.Â
She drew on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dro...