Is Agenda Theatre Ruining Your Meetings? with Dr Ashley Whillans

While you might assume that detailed agendas improve your meetings, they may have exactly the opposite effect. This is because many employees unwittingly engage in a practice we call agenda theatre: They sink time and effort into agendas that create the appearance of effective meetings, without actually improving how meetings are run. What drives this counterproductive behaviour — and what should meeting leaders do instead?

Dr Ashley Whillans tells us what we do.

Find Ashley's work here, including her HBR article: https://ashleywhillans.com/author/