Category: meetings

Shopify Memo Instructs Employees to Cancel Meetings for at Least 2 Weeks

Tech giant Shopify announced in a memo sent to employees on Jan. 3 that all staff were to cancel the majority of meetings for at least a two-week period. “No one joined Shopify to sit in meetings,” wrote Kaz Nejatian, vice president of product and chief operating officer at the company, in the memo Shopify…


Tips for Conducting a Successful Family Meeting

Creating a healthy home environment where your family feels connected and well cared for takes time, effort, and commitment. Family life can be busy, though, and sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with everyone and everything going on. So how do you keep day-to-day life running smoothly? Well, one solution is to conduct regular family…


What Is ‘Calendar Bankruptcy’?

Meetings help bring people together and ensure everyone is on the same page. But having too many meetings can cause more problems than they are meant to prevent. Meeting overload can drain people’s energy and destroy morale. The point of meetings is to help people complete their work, but sometimes they actually hinder people from…


Charlie Chaplin: Getting Acquainted, or A Fair Exchange (1914)

A continuous exchange of meetings between husbands and wives of different couples in which a policeman intrudes in daring chase until both couples are found. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on…


Global Shares Slip Ahead of Central Bank Meetings

BANGKOK—Shares slipped in Europe on Thursday after a mixed session in Asia, with markets in China still closed for Lunar New Year holidays. U.S. futures also were lower as investors watched for updates on monetary policy from the Bank of England and European Central Bank, mindful of the Federal Reserve’s plans to begin raising interest…


Bullard Says Fed Should Tack ‘Hawkish’ in Next Couple of Meetings

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Reserve should “tack in a more hawkish direction” over its next couple of meetings to prepare in case inflation does not begin to ease, St. Louis Federal Reserve bank president James Bullard said on Tuesday. “If inflation happens to go away we are in great shape for that. If inflation doesn’t go…


When Meetings Can’t Be an Email: How to Make Meetings More Impactful

It’s practically an old saw at this point: “That meeting could have been an email.” However, many meetings can’t just be an email, no matter how you may wish it were different. Certain topics and business problems simply require face-to-face conversation so decisions can be made or action plans formulated. When that’s the case, it’s…