Minute Meetings
Universities are quietly adopting short meetings, a practice long refined in Silicon Valley. At places like Michigan and community colleges, ten minute check ins are replacing hour long marathons once filled with procedure. Faculty use quick one on ones to strengthen student ties, and administrators find decisions arrive faster with less fatigue. Tech firms treat brevity as structure with stand ups, sprints, and transparent calendars. Academia moves slower, guided by deliberation and shared governance, yet evidence shows compact meetings improve focus, trust, and momentum. As noted in earlier posts on agile campus habits, attention thrives under clear constraints, and calendars work best when live time is reserved for decisions, not updates.
Klean Denmark, Daily Sprint Meeting, 2011. CC BY-SA 2.0.