Rebecca Hinds

Rebecca Hinds, future-of-work expert and author who founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana, shares how to stop defaulting to meetings and design them with purpose. She explains treating meetings like a product, the 4D CEO test for when synchronous time matters, and memo-first practices that boost readiness. Practical frameworks for intentional length, cadence, agendas, and a calendar cleanse to cut bloat.

Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior and future-of-work expert who founded the Work Innovation Lab at Asana and the Work AI Institute at Glean, discusses measuring meeting success. She covers Return on Time Invested (ROTI) surveys, why sample only some meetings, and how airtime equality, punctuality, and total weekly meeting hours reveal meeting health. Practical fixes like asynchronous work and calendar resets also come up.

Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, explores the art of effective meetings. She delves into the two-pizza rule, emphasizing that smaller groups yield better outcomes. Rebecca exposes the dangers of meeting bloat fueled by visibility bias and offers practical solutions like calendar cleanses and zero-based meeting design. She also discusses the role of data in measuring collaboration, the essential partnership between HR and IT, and how to foster psychological safety in workspaces for meaningful decision-making.

Steven Rogelberg, professor of organizational science and author focused on one-on-one leadership. Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior expert and author who designs better meetings. They discuss designing meetings like products. They explain meeting debt and a 48-hour doomsday reset. They cover minimalist agendas, AI tools to rebalance talk time, and evidence-backed one-on-one rhythms and agendas.

Rebecca Hinds, meetings expert who treats meetings as products, and Jen Fisher, former Deloitte well-being officer and author on hope in organizations. They challenge the calendar status quo and outline meeting resets and the rule of halves. They reframe hope as an actionable strategy and warn that misaligned incentives erode well-being. Short, practical ideas for reclaiming focus and meaning at work.

Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior and future-of-work expert and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, shares practical approaches to redesigning meetings for clarity and momentum. She covers meeting rhythms and timing, the Four D test for when to meet, moving updates asynchronous, structured brainstorming, small design tweaks with big impact, and how AI can help or harm collaboration.

Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean and a savvy organizational behavior researcher, dives deep into AI's transformative potential. She critiques the digital exhaustion trap many companies face, emphasizing that AI's success is rooted in redesigning workflows and fostering collaboration. Rebecca shares her insights on balancing centralization and decentralization in AI implementation, the importance of embedding AI into daily work, and the risks of automating the 'soul' of work. Her approach offers a valuable roadmap for leaders navigating AI integration.

Rebecca Hinds, organizational design and collaboration researcher who leads the Work AI Institute and wrote Your Best Meeting Ever. She explains why meetings become a lazy default and when they are truly necessary. She walks through a calendar reset to cut meeting volume, practical calendar audits and the 10-hour weekly benchmark. She also covers giving feedback, adding little delights, and structuring a focused workday.

Rebecca Hinds, organizational researcher who founded Asana’s Work Innovation Lab and the Work AI Institute, and author of Your Best Meeting Ever. She explains why meetings became broken. She introduces the 4D test for deciding when a meeting is needed. She critiques hour-long defaults and suggests shortening meetings. She explores AI’s mixed impact and which recurring meetings to cut first.

Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior expert and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, draws on research and advising top firms to rethink meetings. She discusses how team-first cultures shape performance, the 4D rule for when meetings are needed, network science and weak ties for career movement, cognitive wandering as innovation fuel, and why AI projects often fail from human resistance.