How to Have Better Meetings
Meetings can take up half of your workday. Here's how to make them more productive.
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PROLOGUE
A Brief History of Meetings
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Chapter 01
Fixing the Modern Meeting
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Chapter 02
Meet with a Purpose: 5 Types of Meetings
Chapter 03
4 Meeting Hacks from Innovative Teams
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Chapter 04
Paths to Productivity: How Meeting Friction Crushes Teamwork
Imagine your manager asks you to lead a new project: a cross-departmental review into hiring processes at your company. The project is wide in scope with many details open to interpretation—so you call a briefing to get all your colleagues on the same page.
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Chapter 05
Millennials Killed the... Corporate Meeting?
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Chapter 06
How New Meetings Are Disrupting Industries
Chapter 07
Meeting Etiquette Around the World
Back in 2011, then-U.S. President Barack Obama stayed at Buckingham Palace as part of a three-day state visit. It was an extremely high-profile visit that carried with it all the pomp and circumstance one would expect—orchestras, high-ranking royals, the whole nine yards.