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Can we fit this in somewhere?

Monday, November 26, 2007

Deciding on whether to schedule yet another meeting requires analysis just as deliberately conducted as would be routinely performed for so intense a use of any other organizational asset. There are actually two levels on which to pursue this. One is related to the putative benefit of the meeting, and the other to the costs it will exact. . .

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Meetings - what are they all about?

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

If meetings are so vital to planning and coordinating our efforts at work, why do we dread them so much? We’ve discussed some of the reasons for this over the past several days. But there’s another, even more common problem with meetings: they, simply, aren’t well done. This is a huge, and hugely important, topic, and we can’t cover it in detail. But we will go over some of the principles related to the above points over the next several days. In the meanwhile, there are at least two ways you can protect yourself from meeting-overload . . .

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