Benchmarks

How many meetings is too many is a question that wants a number back. Something like “more than fifteen hours a week”, so you can hold your calendar up against it and be told you are right. The number does not exist. Not in a form you should quote, and not in a form that would help you if it did. ...

You already know the week is wrong. That is not the problem. The problem is that when someone asks you to justify changing it, “I have too many meetings” is not an argument — it is a mood, and moods lose to a manager who has a roadmap. ...