The Rules Of Management: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success, Expanded Edition

Chapter 6. Make Meetings Fun

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 way of doing meetings has to stop, and you’re the 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 a penny. After they had used up their coins, they were done and couldn’t say anything more. It was supposed to make people really cautious about speaking and reluctant to spend all ...