Ten Tips For More Effective Meetings
By Michael H. Smith, Ph.D.
It’s been 28 years since Michael Doyle and David Straus wrote their groundbreaking book, How To Make Meetings Work (1976). Are you like many of my clients who gripe about numbing, deadening meetings? As one publication put it, “days, weeks, months, years of our lives are slipping away in stuffy, overcrowded conference rooms”. Little appears to be accomplished and no one seems to be able to do anything about it.
Doyle and Straus claimed that there were 11 million meetings in the US every day in 1976. Doyle says that there are 25 million today and most of them don’t work. If you calculate how much productive time plus lost wages accrue to those sitting in the room, a truly staggering figure emerges.
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