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  • Change Your Calendar, Change Your Life

    In one of my favorite commercials, a security person stands idly by while a bank robbery occurs. In response to the people waiting for him to take action, he explains, “I’m a security monitor, not a security guard. I only tell you when there’s a robbery.” The tagline is, “Why monitor a problem if you’re not going to fix it?”

  • Stop The Spread Of Meeting-itis With 2 Simple Steps

    Does the thought of going to your next meeting make you feel ill? Is your organization suffering from the following symptoms?

  • Meetings That Work for Both Managers and Makers

    When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results, when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.”

  • Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers

    In the ideal meeting, all attendees participate, contributing diverse points of view and thinking together to reach new insights. But few meetings live up to this ideal, in large part because not everyone is able to effectively contribute.