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Article: DAWN ANFUSO: Fighting the 'Meeting Monsters'
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- Daily Breeze
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- July 30, 2009
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By Dawn Anfuso
Meetings are a necessary evil. Needed for decision making and
strategizing, they at times seem unbearable thanks to "Meeting
Monsters," defined by Mike Song, coauthor of "The Hamster Revolution
for Meetings: How to Meet Less and Get More Done," as folks who
"disrupt, derail and disintegrate" progress. Here are seven "Meeting
Monsters" and Song's suggestions for taming them:
Late Larry: Always late, he has important-sounding excuses, like:
"I had to put out a fire with the new client!" Larry doesn't realize
that wasting everyone's time taints his professional image. What to
do: Tell everyone to be a few minutes early so they don't hold
things up. Next, inform Larry he will be ...