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Okay, here is the Kanang.

Meetings can be a spirit draining and soul sucking experience, and they can be creative

exhilarating and strategically game changing.

Crabby meetings can cost the company millions.

Creative meetings can earn a company millions.

Before I give you three tips about how you turn awful meetings into awesome meetings,

let me first save your soul.

Straight up, there are too many damn meetings.

The sheer volume is the biggest problem.

People without the power to order paper clips can call a meeting and bring productive

mojo of a half dozen team members to a screeching halt.

Statistically, people are in meetings a third of their entire workday, averaging 62 meetings

a month, 63% without a pre-planned agenda.

Here's the deal.

Two thirds of meetings are unnecessary.

Most meetings are called to convey information.

They are mostly one way communications, then with any questions inquiry at the end, then

an endless of circular conversations of travality ensues.

Those meetings can become memos, or even go fancy, and record a video briefing.

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