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It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Very, very few people actually have long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

Working is a great distraction technique.

You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.