August 5, 2011

Making Meetings Useful

Joel Mitchell of the Vancouver Sun writes about a new book on a topic that all of us can relate to: meetings. Does this sound familiar:

"Meetings are taking over our businesses and keeping us from actually getting the work done. Meetings are the reason cartoons like Dilbert and TV shows like The Office exist (and why they are so funny... or sad). Let's face it: meetings not only suck, but they are sucking the life out of organizations.What happened?
Weren't meetings originally created as a way to get things done? Weren't they supposed to be the place where decisions were made or a team could come together and brainstorm? How did we get so bad at meetings? "
The book is Read this Before Our Next Meeting and the Kindle edition is free.

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