Sunday's Boston Globe column collected advice from all sorts of places — non-profits, venture capital firms, and public companies — about how to run shorter, more effective meetings. The opening:
Two people sitting in a room is a conversation. Three is a meeting, and things start to deteriorate from there. As the number of participants grows, the odds increase that PowerPoint slides will be shown, meaningless “action items’’ distributed, pet projects trotted out, oratorical skills exhibited, and BlackBerrys checked.
Here's some supplemental info:
- From Forrester Research, a great guide to handling the different personality types that populate the typical company meeting.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Upgrading meetings: Advice from entrepreneurs, executives and investors - Innovation Economy - Boston.com
Author: Scott Kirsner
