Don't attend meetings you're not needed in

Meetings have become the place where decisions happen.

When meetings become decision central, everyone feels they need to be everywhere.

You can’t skip the meeting where your project might get discussed.

When everyone thinks that way, every meeting becomes overcrowded with people who don’t need to be there.

Often we come with simple advice “Don’t attend meetings you’re not needed in” which sounds obvious.

Yet people keep showing up.

They sit in meetings where they have nothing to contribute. Where they’re not making decisions. Where they’re just… there.