# Are we meeting ourselves to death?

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Podcast: [Round Table China](https://stenobird.com/podcast/round-table-china-390882)
Published: 2026-07-06T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: 1_2765254
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The average worker spends more than an entire workday each week in meetings. Calendars are overflowing, focus is fractured, and meaningful work keeps getting pushed aside. Meetings are necessary at times, but the real question is whether we are simply holding too many or whether we have forgotten what a good one actually looks like. / Do you need more oxygen (18:28)? On the show: Steve, Yushun & Xingyu

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