How's The Nectar Gathering?
“I’m just saying we’d collect more nectar if we weren’t in meetings all day”
— Private Eye Magazine (@PrivateEyeNews) July 11, 2025
From the new Private Eye, out now. pic.twitter.com/ylXhB7A5cL
Speaks for itself.
Also enjoying the comment, been there. Indeed.
From apian to Sales.
Rudderless, pointless, endless.
Describe any of your internal talking shops?
When swirling inside Peak Zoom, I wrote my book, Video Calls That Sell. I deliberately focused on video meeting angles alone. Yet there are many meeting musts that apply across all formats. Whether video, audio-only or in-person.
To take but one central pillar, think agenda.
Plenty of nuances with video sessions allow for unique application that make them work beautifully well, specifically tailored across such setting.
My book's subtitle is 52 ways to get what you want from virtual meetings. Agendas being one of these ways. Number 14 of the 52, in fact.
Here's a later excerpt. From the Postface, section titled Wellbeing, p248;
"Learning to say ‘no’ to certain video calls is perhaps the hardest of the recommended remedies to pull off to temper undue pressure. Suggesting swapping them for other forums, a softer route. Do you really need this meeting, over video? As Ad man Rory Sutherland wryly observes, purse string monitors can care more about reining in minor expenses spend than flagrant misuse of multiple and prominent executive resource, in the form of convening unnecessary meetings which decimate productive hours."
All hail that seventh bee who dares to say the unsayable.
Are you imbued with similar buzz?