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Why Everyday Office Meetings Suck … Skip This and You're Screwed

So many people constantly complain about lost productivity and how it affects the bottom line. But what's really to blame?

The biggest culprit of the billions lost to businesses comes from everyday general office meetings—the impromptu team, sales, update, and project meetings. They're the meetings we dread, complain about, and endure while wishing we could be elsewhere (like doing our real jobs). In fact, these impromptu (and annoying) meetings, which I've attended a thousand times over, drove me to create the Boring Meetings Suck concept and the first version of this book. Many years later, where are we? In those intervening years, nothing has changed. In fact, the boring meeting syndrome has gotten worse.