Yesterday,
I arrived to a meeting on time.
However, half of the participants didn’t.
We spent fifteen precious minutes
waiting for the latecomers
to finally show up.
In an edition of
CMA Magazine
(an edition because
I couldn’t find the date on it anywhere),
Steve Prentice,
author of
Cool Down: Getting Further by Going Slow,
suggests to
make meetings 55 minutes long
because people will know
when the meeting will be over
and it, somehow, encourages them
not to be late.
“It’s like pricing
something at $19.95
instead of $20.
It’s only five minutes,
but it works.”
People like to bargain price
and a bargain meeting.
Shave five minutes off your meetings.