Welcome to Manager Tools.

Today's topic, Visual Record Keeping, part one.

Here we go.

Folks, for those of you who are listening when this comes out,

2014 is right around the corner,

as we've sent emails to many of you.

It's a very good chance that I won't be presenting after 2014.

So if you want to come to a public conference where I'm going to be presenting,

you go to the website and

check out those dates. We're just getting too busy for me to be everywhere that I need

to be and Mike says I should be home more often. So come see us at a conference in

2014.

Hope you see there.

Well, meetings aren't inherently bad, right?

I mean, but like, if you've been in the professional world

for any length of the time,

you know that there are a lot of meetings

that are bad and if they are and there are a lot of meetings life is

really not a lot of fun but it's not the, right? I mean meetings have a very useful purpose.

Your meetings are great. When you get to, you're in your meetings, well, good meetings are great.

So the problem is not the meeting. The problem is us.

Right. Most of us need to learn better behaviors for different types of meetings.

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