Post by Rishen Dalmia

The shortest meeting I've ever seen lasted 27 seconds. A friend told me this happened in his office. A senior leader walked into the conference room. Looked at everyone and asked, "Has anyone spoken to the customer?" Silence. Everyone had data. Excel sheets. Dashboards. Forecasts. But nobody had actually spoken to the customer. He closed his laptop and said, then we're discussing assumptions, not reality." Meeting over. Twenty-seven seconds. My friend laughed while telling me the story. But I couldn't stop thinking about it. Corporate life has this strange habit. We spend hours making presentations... when a 10-minute conversation could have answered the question. We debate. We analyse. We speculate. Sometimes, the answer isn't hiding in another Excel sheet. It's hiding in the conversation we never had. That meeting ended in 27 seconds. But I have a feeling everyone in that room still remembers it. LinkedIn | LinkedIn Guide to Creating #life #corporate