My favorite meetings at my last job were the ones in which we spent 50 minutes discussing the previous week’s action points but only 10 minutes discussing what needed to get done. That CEO didn’t make it to his 1-year anniversary with our company.

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Published on April 4, 2012 by Jay

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An “after-hours” meeting where only your boss and the CEO were invited to discuss the progress on the “high priority” project of the month, only to have every VP and higher show up, including one “advisor” who doesn’t even work for the company but manages to side-rail the presentation every minute with a stupid question.