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Creating Time Scarcity

How many meetings do you attend every week? Do your meetings tend to take forever? How many informal meetings do you have that go on longer than expected?

I have a limited number of meetings to attend, about 6 hours every week. But sure, we could make them tighter. I saw a post about creating time scarcity in meetings by introducing meeting tokens on 43Folders. And I think it’s an interesting concept.

Meeting Tokens

How it works is that at the start of the week, all people (who need to attend / call a meeting) are given tokens. To call a meeting you need sufficient tokens. E.g. 4 tokens of 10 minutes if you want to have a daily standup meeting of 10 minutes with 4 people. You can’t go beyond this time, and the tokens lapse as used. The Red Merlin token is a trump token, and can be used to end any meeting without question – of course, Red Merlin is given to only one person!

What do you think about this?

Tokens created by Mike Monteiro.

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