I think this article hits the nail on the head: meetings are baked into so many daily processes, often for no good reason.

But simply culling meetings is no panacea either. Clear, concise and well structured business writing is like a muscle, and I suspect there is a high degree of ‘atrophy’ in most organisations.

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Written communication does not come naturally to many of us and may seem like the slower way to get your message across. But it also tends to be of higher quality, which saves time in the long run
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