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HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter (HBR Guide Series)
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HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter (HBR Guide Series)

by Harvard Business Review
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
3h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 2

Stop Calling Every Conversation a “Meeting”

by Al Pittampalli

When both a 500-attendee event and a two-person discussion are referred to as “meetings,” it’s difficult to suss out a gathering’s true purpose and to know how to prepare to make it successful. In order to have fewer, more purposeful meetings, we need a more robust vocabulary to describe them. So let’s do some renaming, starting with three common “meetings” that you’ll soon realize aren’t really meetings at all.

Meetings with just two people are actually conversations. Whereas meetings with ample attendee lists require an agenda, plenty of preparation, and an articulable purpose, one-on-one discussions need not be as rigorous. They aren’t weapons of mass interruption, and ...

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ISBN: 9781633692183