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Running E ective Meetings

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ost of us have attended too many meet-

ings where the meeting organizer was

anything but organized. Perhaps he

called a meeting to make an important decision, but

didn’t send out the critical information to prepare in

advance—so we spent the entire meeting skimming

data and only half focusing on the decision at hand.

Perhaps he sent out the presentation deck in advance

but didn’t think to invite the team’s leader, though

she needed to endorse the fi nal choice. Perhaps he

just invited everyone to brainstorm, but nobody re-

ally had any ideas and the conversation faltered as

everyone began surreptitiously answering messages ...