--- title: Toxic meeting culture | daily.dev description: A personal reflection on how toxic meeting culture develops in growing organizations. Drawing from six years at a company that scaled from 50 to 1500 people,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/toxic-meeting-culture-v4p5bykyp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Toxic meeting culture | daily.dev og:description: A personal reflection on how toxic meeting culture develops in growing organizations. Drawing from six years at a company that scaled from 50 to 1500 people,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/toxic-meeting-culture-v4p5bykyp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v4p5bykYp.png og:image:alt: Toxic meeting culture og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Toxic meeting culture **[Erik Bernhardsson](https://daily.dev/sources/erikbernhardsson)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal reflection on how toxic meeting culture develops in growing organizations. Drawing from six years at a company that scaled from 50 to 1500 people, the author identifies four root causes: managers deriving false satisfaction from meetings, brainstorming sessions that favor extroverts and alpha personalities, fear of leaving people out causing meeting bloat, and high calendar load factors that slow organizational decision-making to a crawl. Each problem comes with a practical fix, such as capping recurring meetings, limiting brainstorming groups to four people, and making decisions asynchronously rather than deferring them to scheduled meetings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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