Death by Meeting: The Hidden Cost of Bad Meetings with Dr. Rebecca Hinds | 385

2026-02-04

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If meetings are draining your energy, killing momentum, and stealing your calendar — you’re not imagining it. They’re broken. And they’re costing us trillions. In this episode of This Is Woman’s Work, Nicole is joined by Dr. Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior expert, Stanford PhD, and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, to expose why meetings are one of the most expensive, overlooked products inside any organization — and how to fix them. We get into: Why bad meetings are literally an old-school sabotage tactic (thanks, WWII)

If meetings are draining your energy, killing momentum, and stealing your calendar — you’re not imagining it. They’re broken. And they’re costing us trillions.

In this episode of This Is Woman’s Work, Nicole is joined by Dr. Rebecca Hinds, organizational behavior expert, Stanford PhD, and author of Your Best Meeting Ever, to expose why meetings are one of the most expensive, overlooked products inside any organization — and how to fix them.

We get into:

Why bad meetings are literally an old-school sabotage tactic (thanks, WWII)
The real cost of ineffective meetings — and who pays the highest price
The 4D CEO Test for deciding if a meeting should exist at all
Why status updates don’t belong in meetings (ever)
The science behind why meetings over 8 people stop working
How to measure meetings by return on time invested
Why you don’t need fewer meetings — you need better ones
And how to influence meetings even when you’re not the one in charge

This conversation is part wake-up call, part permission slip, and part playbook for anyone done pretending “this is just how work works.”

Meetings aren’t neutral. They shape culture, power, and whose work gets seen — so if your meetings are broken, your organization is too. The good news? You don’t need more authority to change them — just more intention.

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Connect with Rebecca

Website: https://www.rebeccahinds.com/

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-hinds/

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