Dealing with Meetings You Can't Stand: Meet Less and Do More

INTRODUCTION

The Problems with Meetings We Will Solve

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be meetings.

—DAVE BARRY

I remember the first business meeting I attended. Fresh out of naturopathic medical school, I was a new resident at the school clinic. We had a clinic conference meeting once a week with all the doctors. I thought the purpose was to be informed of anything we needed to know, discuss any issues we had, and, most of all, have ...