Why Meetings Stink — And How To Improve Them

by | Apr 16, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits

Meetings — effective meetings — are for communicating and decision-making. As leaders, we have to make sure the meetings in our company are lean, on-point, accurate and valuable. If not, we’re wasting a massive amount of time, money and opportunity.

Love ’em or hate ’em, do you think leaders like Elon Musk, Donald Trump or Oprah waste time with meetings they don’t need to have?
No — they have the meetings they need, but they do them short, fast and effectively.

Read more here.

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