Meetings are what people do when they: a) Have little or no ideas of their own (misery loves company) and; b)are afraid to act (so what the hell let’s meet). In other words, “Those who can’t, meet” – and millions can – and wow do they love to meet.

It’s not a nuisance –– it’s a global plague

How to control the disease? Nuke them!

1. Hold meetings in rooms with no chairs

2. Make the person who asks for the meeting justify it up front and then ask the others to rate its success immediately after….a few ratings of C or less has a way of putting a damper on meeting mania

3. Ask people who don’t contribute to the meeting to leave…..politically incorrect? Who cares. This is business. Certainly a group of people sitting around staring at the ceiling isn’t “correct.”

4. Ban power point. If people insist on a sleeping pill, face the fact and hand out Ambien!

Meeting mania is more than a waste of time….it is a symptom of management that sucks. For a complimentary read of Chapter One of my new book, Your Management Sucks, please visit Your Management Sucks

Mark Stevens

CEO

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