A recent U.K. study showed that the average office worker spends around 16 hours in meetings each week. That’s over 200 hours a year. For a grand total over an entire career of--are you sitting down?--9,000 hours of meetings. That's a solid year and 10 days of your precious time.

There are few tried and true strategies for running productive meetings: Be prepared, have a leader, an agenda, a fixed time to start and stop, a conclusion and plan to follow up. But if we have to sit around in a windowless conference room for 9,000 hours, can’t we come up with something more . . . engaging?

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