Part Two. We’ve Got to Start Meeting Like This: An End-to-End Solution for More Effective Meetings

Have you ever played Buzzword Bingo? You know, the game where you print out a bingo card with buzzwords and phrases like "action item" and "efficiency" before going into a meeting and cross them off as you hear them said by any of your fellow meeting attendees. The game is won when you text message a coworker in the same meeting the word "Bingo" to signal you have completed a row. Invented by Tom Davis of Silicon Graphics in 1993 (and later made famous by Dilbert), Buzzword Bingo has since developed into a popular satire on the workplace, helping countless people stay awake during meetings. A group of MIT students even used Buzzword Bingo cards to ...

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