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M. Anjali Sastry
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Cambridge MA 02142
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Follow-up readings
Meeting Analysis: Findings from research and practice A paper from the Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2001
The Seven Sins of Deadly Meetings a 1996 article from Fast Company
And seven steps to salvation. Tools, techniques, and technologies to make your meetings less painful, more productive – even heavenly.
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For the following readings, go to this MIT Libraries site and search using the citation information below.
How to Make Every Meeting Matter May 1, 2003, by Tom Krattenmaker, Harvard Management Communication Letter
In today's workplace, time is in short supply. Unfortunately, meetings aren't. Here are some strategies for making good meetings better and for killing the time sinks.
How to run a meeting. By: Jay, Antony. Harvard Business Review, Mar/Apr76, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p43-57
Why is it that any single meeting may be a waste of time, an irritant, or a barrier to the achievement of an organization's objectives? The answer lies in the fact, as the author says, that "all sorts of human crosscurrents can sweep the discussion off course, and errors of psychology and technique on the chairman's part can defeat its purposes." This article offers guidelines on how to right things that go wrong in meetings. The discussion covers the functions of a meeting, the distinctions in size and type of meetings, ways to define the objectives, making preparations, the chairman's role, and ways to conduct a meeting that will achieve its objectives.
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