Been in any meetings recently? Who hasn't? Most of us feel we spend far too much time in meetings; much of it wasted.
Meetings are often inefficient and costly. They take forever. They lack structure or process. The wrong people attend. Some arrive late. People dominate the discussion to get their own viewpoint across. Those who may have valuable contributions don't get a word in. There are lots of pointed fingers, raised voices and interrupting. At any time, one third of the meeting doesn't know what is being discussed; one third does know but has lost interest in the outcome; and argument rages amongst the rest, whose only decision may be to set a date to start talking all over again - because some of them have to leave for another meeting. Afterwards no-one remembers what
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