How to run and participate
in effective meetings
DOWN WITH MEETINGS
Meetings bloody meetings, the title of a training film, strikes a
familiar chord with us all. When you think how many commit-
tees exist and how many meetings are held in any organization,
it is remarkable how hard it is to find anyone who has a good
word to say about them.
It has been said that committees are made up of the unfit
appointed by the incompetent to do the unnecessary, and, again,
that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Experience
of badly organized and pointless meetings is so widespread that,
for many people, these cynical comments come very close to the
truth.
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