Quick Ideas 89 to 90 90 The Third-Greatest Time-Killer The third-greatest time-killer is meetings. That's why we all hate them so much. You've been to meetings that could have lasted 15 minutes but went an hour because of disorgani- zation, people showing up late, lack of a coherent agenda, and many other Assignment reasons. Vow now to be part of So we avoid them, but the solution, not part of the can't get away from them. problem, when it comes to Meetings are absolutely wasted time in meetings. necessary in almost every business or organization of which I am aware. So do we avoid them or try to make them efficient? Because they are needed, let's vow to make them more efficient and waste as little time as possible. Epilogue A recent research project conducted by the University of Iowa determined that as much as 50 percent of the time spent in meetings is wasted. We MUST fix this. 113