Imagine this scenario: you've been trying to fill a role for six weeks. The team is stressed and cranky because the extra work is falling on them. Your manager is asking questions about what is taking so long.

There’s a reason culture feels easy when you’re small. As the founder, the company revolves around you. You have a hand in every hire, you’re in all the meetings and ultimately, the decisions all flow through you. Your company is you, and so the culture is also you.

A quick Google search yields a plethora of alarming statistics related to the cost of unproductive meetings. A few stats:

• There are approximately 55 million meetings daily and at least half do not accomplish much (Forbes, 2019)

An important part of leadership is to pause and take breaks (as I mentioned in THIS Pause blog post). Sometimes those breaks are mental breaks to recoup and recover. Other times, they should be clarity breaks where you take a step back and focus on your business or your life. It’s a chance to clear your mind of the thousand questions and thoughts flying around and get them down on paper.