From 'Solution Bias' to better leadership

Matt Waldock  |  Features
Date posted:  7 May 2026
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From 'Solution Bias' to better leadership

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In the mid-naughties, it was fashionable to say that meetings of every type and stripe were a waste of time. But the concept of meetings endured, and most of us can attest that they are alive and well in most workplaces - and especially in churches.

Now, I’m quite fond of meetings, mainly because I’m good at them. I enjoy the cut and thrust of identifying an issue, and vaulting with the collective group to the new solution which we celebrate with a quiet self-satisfaction of cracking world peace in the time it takes for a cup of coffee to get cold.

But what if I’ve been actually doing it wrong all these years?

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