How to declare ‘calendar bankruptcy’ — and why you should
Clear the slate and start over.

Modern work calls for a lot of meetings. Research from Atlassian showed that 78% of employees have so many meetings that it’s hard to get actual work done. About half of workers say they need to pull extra hours a few days a week to accomplish the outputs meetings prevent them from doing.
But things don’t have to be that way.
Greg Hill, chief people officer at consulting firm Exos, found that he was working 10- or 12-hour days, much of that driven by meetings. That kept him from the things in his outside life that mattered most, like his three children, as well as driving real change at the organization.
So, he declared “calendar bankruptcy”: deleting every standing meeting off his books. He also told his entire team to do the same.
Then he asked the team three questions:
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