If you can’t make phone calls or conference calls that take less than 5 minutes, you may be a talker. If you want to have a pre-meeting for every meeting, you may be a talker with a lack of confidence. If you can’t send in a deliverable without getting everyone to sign-off in advance, you may be trying to simply cover your ass.
I’m currently working with a consultant who literally sent me a 5 page PowerPoint deck that simply covered how we were going to build a 10 page PowerPoint deck over the next 2 weeks. It was something that time and energy was clearly invested into and was intended to actually be used. Simply doing work without an overkill structure was a foreign concept to them. Every call we had with more than 2 people needed to have a pre-call in advance.
This is not how efficiency works and it’s not how great work gets done. Great work is not born out of a committee and achieved on conference calls. Great work requires risk and experience and knowledge and a touch of ESP. No where in the ingredient list is conference calls.