Olimova Mohinur

5. Have an Armeetingeddon 

According to an Inc. feature, around 2013, Dropbox 

engineers were spending more than half of their time 

sitting in conference rooms for meetings.  

Employees were complaining that there were too many 

meetings, they were too crowded (often with people who 

didn’t need to be there), and many had no real purpose.  

In response, Dropbox leadership responded with a 

company-wide email titled: “Armeetingeddon has 

landed.” 

They canceled all recurring meetings for all teams for two 

full weeks. During that time, they asked leaders and team 

members to consider whether it made sense to reinstate 

each individual recurring meeting or not once the two-

week period had ended.  

Like weeding a garden, or pruning a tree, they have since 

repeated the process semi-regularly. This keeps the 

original problem from happening ever again. 

If you feel like you’re having way too many meetings, 

consider having an Ameetingeddon for you and your team. 

By removing all the recurring meetings, you force each 

meeting to be reconsidered with a fresh set of eyes. You 

also avoid the momentum of it being already scheduled 

and thinking, “We might as well meet…” 

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