Meetings are usually dumb. Perhaps we need AI to help us figure out how to run an effective meeting.

My Ai will circle back and touch base with your Ai to discuss offline allocating some bandwidth so we can push back by the close of play.

I'm mostly being serious with my comment. I think meetings are necessary but somehow we end up wasting a lot of time. The other factor is, once a person's time becomes largely consumed by meetings, they tend to throw in the towel and give up on any deep thought or any kind of accomplishment. Once this watershed moment occurs, the tendency to book more meetings is increased. After all, it is far better to be 100% overhead and only attend meetings all day vs attending meetings 60% of the time an expected to do something meaningful in the remaining 40% (which is usually highly fragmented).

I have seen that play out with managers before, especially those that espouse 'hard work' principles. Once you are over a threshold of meetings actual work is functionally impossible and to avoid being seen to be "not busy" the hard working executive will pull others in their orbit into meetings, dragging others over the threshold ...

If the AI is actually intelligent, what it would say about most meetings is "this meeting should not be held."

I think you are right. The Alpha Zero manager would likely operate very differently.

I just came up with a great title for a management book “The Alpha Zero Manager”. Now I’ll just ask GPT to write the content.