35 Surefire Ways to Kill a MeetingWritten by John Gravitt
35 Surefire Ways to Kill a Meeting translates into how to run a meeting.1. Play “find meeting” by changing location and time of your meeting at last minute. 2. Don’t bother to book your meeting room in advance. Lead group from room to room trying to find another place to meet. 3. Bring 5 handouts for 20 attendees. 4. Leave and say, “I’ll be back. I’m going to make handouts.” 5. Don't use an agenda because “everybody knows why we are here.” 6. Keep an attitude that “meetings are not work.” ”Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. " - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - ) 7. Say “I don’t need a microphone” and proceed to yell for entire meeting or talk too softly for back of room to hear. 8. Combine two unrelated meetings into one big meeting, ensuring that half will not care about half of meeting. “Soufflé is more important than you think. If men ate soufflé before meetings, life could be much different.” Jacques Baeyens, French consul general in NYC 9. Don’t serve food during a lunchtime meeting. 10. Play “find a chair” at beginning of meeting due to inadequate seating. 11. Allow people to bring active pagers and cell phones and stop meeting when one goes off. 12. Use visual aids no one can see without binoculars. 13. When you are finished, keep going just because meeting was scheduled to take longer. 14. Invite Bozo Facilitator to conduct your meeting. 15. Spend time trying to remember what happened at last meeting. 16. Spend time arguing about what happened at last meeting. 17. Refuse to take “off-line” conversations off line. 18. Fail to take minutes and follow up after meeting. 19. Disband without summarizing meeting. 20. Start over each time a latecomers arrives.
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