Chapter 10Managing Meetings

As a project manager, you could spend your whole day in meetings. There is nothing inherently wrong with that as long as you are careful to attend or call only those meetings that are of real value. Unfortunately, you won’t always be able to be the person who can determine what’s valuable. In this chapter, you’ll learn to tell the difference between good and bad meetings and learn how to spend more of your time in productive meetings and less in those that seem to serve no useful purpose.

Too many project managers waste time in meetings. Your time, and your project team’s time, is too valuable to waste in meetings. Don’t just run from meeting to meeting; decide whether any given meeting is worth your time. You’ll ...

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