Calling time on meetings

Although start-up growth requires extensive communication between staff, many meetings end up becoming as productive as a Dilbert cartoon

Where is the middle ground on business meetings? Pic: iStock
Where is the middle ground on meetings? Pic: iStock

There is nothing worse than a long, overdrawn, unproductive meeting - but almost every organisation seems to have them.

While gathering your team around a conference room table might have initially started out as an innocent way to get everyone’s input, it might transpire that, three hours later, everything has been discussed but nothing has been done.

In August, the Harvard Business Review published an article ...