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Meetings: The clown car

Meetings: The clown car

Update: 2025-04-28
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What if all the meetings in your calendar disappeared overnight? Tia Silas, Chief HR Officer of Shopify, an e-commerce firm, tells Andrew Palmer what happened when they tried just that. Claire Hughes-Johnson, a former COO of Stripe, offers a practical guide to running meetings. And we eavesdrop on the weekly meeting at The Economist, with lessons from Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, on how she encourages constructive debate.


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Meetings: The clown car

Meetings: The clown car