Rules of Management, The: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success

Chapter 5. Make Meetings Fun

	“Don’t tell me you lost your sense of humor already?”
	--Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I guess that when you were working your way up to your illustrious position of today you had to sit through many interminable meetings, all boring, all stupifyingly dull. Well, the pattern has to be broken somewhere, and I’m relying on you to break it. The old ways of doing meetings has to stop, and you’re the very person to do it.

“THE OLD WAYS OF DOING MEETINGS HAS TO STOP, AND YOU’RE THE VERY PERSON TO DO THE STOPPING.”

So let’s make ’em fun. Now, before we go on, I remember a tip I read somewhere. Basically you were supposed to give out five coins to each meeting member and when they wanted to speak they had to spend ...