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Teen Vogue Editor Amy Astley On Why She Doesn’t Hold Big Staff Meetings

5:45 pm, February 8th | by Hillary Reinsberg

Amy Astley has become a force at Conde Nast — and in the magazine industry at large — for transforming Teen Vogue into a pretty amazing global brand. But she didn’t get there by having big staff meetings. She learned that the hard way.

As she tells The New York Times:

“I used to do big staff meetings, with everybody sitting in the conference room. After I did that for six months or so, I realized that it quickly becomes like a high school cafeteria. You have your alpha girls. Two of them are best friends. They talk. They shut everybody else down. The other people don’t say a peep — you’d think they’ve gone mute — and no new ideas are coming out. So I’m very strategic about how I meet with people. I have an open-door policy. I basically spend my day meeting with my staff, one or two people at a time. People come in and out all day long. We talk about ideas, and nobody feels attacked.”

Do you agree with Astley? Are big staff meetings just a way to create office gossips and drama?

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