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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is about

how to create better meetings. Meetings are a necessary tool to do many modern jobs.

Other people know things that we don't.

These people are unlikely to show up at our offices, unbidden, at the exact moment we wish to see them.

They are unlikely to be ready to talk about exactly what we wish to discuss.

So we schedule mutually agreeable times to meet. Hence, meetings. But like email, meetings are a tool to do our jobs. They are not the job itself. And as I look at people's

schedules, I see that in many cases there are so many meetings that they may as

well be the job because there's no time to do anything else.

That would be fine if every meeting was the best possible use of everyone's time.

But in an organization with a meeting-heavy culture,

the only way to get people to pay attention to a project

is to call a meeting.

So then you wind up with meetings that result only in finding out that,

yep, everyone is still doing her job.

Well, maybe, because the meeting has been rescheduled twice

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