Good meetings start with defining the decision

Make room for quiet as you reopen offices | How many days in the office? Let's flip the question | Here's an exercise to determine your best hybrid work model Created for {EMAIL} | [{NAME}]( at [{NAME}]( [For more relevant content - Update Your Profile]( | [Web Version]( June 16, 2021 CONNECT WITH SMARTBRIEF  [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [SmartBrief on Leadership]( [SmartBrief on Leadership]( Innovative Ideas. Ahead of the Curve. [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [SHARE](  [] Leading Edge [] [Make room for quiet as you reopen offices]( Millions of people who worked remotely during the pandemic have discovered the benefits of a little extra quiet and space to think, and any return-to-offices plan should look to infuse those benefits into how offices function, what meetings are held and how teams communicate, David Dye writes. "What did you stop doing that doesn't need to come back?" he asks. 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"Stabilization decisions, such as the decision around wearing masks, tend to be relatively easily reversible," says Mihir Mysore, "but resolution decisions -- related to vaccines, for example, or whether to do a product recall -- are much harder to reverse." Full Story: [McKinsey]( (6/15) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Daily Diversion [] [Did you know "potable" and "poison" are related?]( Daniel de Haas has combined his software expertise with his love of etymology by writing code that quickly sorts out words with surprisingly similar roots, like "potable" and "poison" each tracing back to "potare" in Latin. Similarly, "lien" and "ligament" stem from the Latin "ligare," or "tie," although a ligament's connection to people is more welcome than a lien's. Full Story: [Daniel de Haas]( (6/11) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Editor's Note [] Did you vote in this week's poll? 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