Meetings are also run inefficiently. My last manager was abysmal at setting agendas for meetings, and any time he ran a meeting, it would filled with status reports (mostly for projects I won’t ever be working on) and the occasional brainstorming session for ways that our team can leverage AI.

The way I handled it was to simply take over the meetings and run them myself, but that didn’t address the underlying problems (poor management skills and a lack of respect for staff time).