Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, timely meetings, part two.

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All right, folks, here we go to the show. You know our next point is use a visible clock and it just continues to amaze me

going to client sites and going into a meeting room you know a where meetings take place, and there's no clock on the wall. I don't get it. I really don't get it.

Yeah, you know, there are all kinds of places where clocks are ubiquitous and yet for some reason in meetings

we just burn cash right we don't have any recommendations here at the meeting clock

but I'm sure we'll talk about it later. Well, I mean, I figured it out.

I know why they don't have meeting clocks in or clocks in meeting rooms.

It's kind of like Vegas.

I guess everybody thinks that like work is a big gamble

so they don't want to have clocks.

I don't know. Yeah I also think it's just that the clock

makes them feel like somebody is watching them. The clock is watching them and

frowning on them that you're burning time.

And it's always interesting to me to hear people say,

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