Truth 14One Less Meeting Gets You Home in Time for Dinner

A client of mine absolutely loved to have meetings. Regardless of the topic, if there was some reason for at least two people to have any kind of interaction, a meeting got called. Not only were there a lot of meetings, but there would almost always be superfluous bodies taking up space in the meeting who had no real reason to be there other than to be "informed." Now, if decisions got made and things got done, I would have had more tolerance for the meeting mania. But more often than not, little got done at these meetings other than to schedule more meetings. It was madness!

As a senior manager, I could have spent every working hour of every day in meetings.

As a senior manager, I could ...

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