Twelve Greatest Ideas for Leading Effective Meetings
Idea 70: Why meetings matter
If people are of one heart, even the yellow earth can become gold.
Chinese proverb
Meetings proliferate but they have acquired a bad name for ineffectiveness, time wasting and sheer lack of fun. As the witches said in Shakespeare’s Macbeth:
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Managers will certainly meet in better conditions than those witches on their blasted heath, but they definitely know that they will be meeting again â and again!
Meeting is a very general word that encompasses any situation in which two or more people come together by accident or design, in an encounter that may be momentary or prolonged. Almost all of them involve ...
