Episode description

About this episode

Matt Phelan and Dr Carrie Goucher discuss the fascinating world of meeting culture, how it evolved, why it is a problem and how we can fix it.

About Dr Carrie Goucher

Dr Carrie Goucher is a leading expert on fixing broken collaboration and helping organisations move faster by rethinking how they meet, decide and execute.

With a PhD in Meeting Culture from Cambridge, she coined the term “Collabureaucracy" to describe the invisible friction slowing companies down.

As the creator of FewerFasterBolder, Carrie helps global brands, governments, and high-growth teams cut meeting overload, streamline collaboration and drive real progress.You can get a free technique or idea for collaborating faster every Thursday in her FrictionFree newsletter -

 www.FewerFasterBolder.com/frictionfree

Questions in this episode

What makes you happy Carrie?

Why do companies ignore the issue of bad meetings?

What is the cost of bad meetings?

What is Collabureaucracy?
How do we fix the The international time zones and calls dilemma ?

WhatsApp at work good or bad?
What does a great meeting culture look like?
How did you go from frontline practitioner to PHD?
How has meeting culture evolved?

How did we get here ?
How do we fix meetings ?
What are your top 3 tips to solve this problem?