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How to Master Your Next Meeting

The keys to staying calm, focused, and effective when leading a meeting.
Source: Chris Philpot

Meetings are crucial, sure. But also, they’re absurd.  

Let’s work! … by not working. Let’s get something done! … by mostly being quiet. Let’s sit around a table and have a conversation! … and end it arbitrarily regardless of how much we’ve gotten done.  Let’s meet! … about scheduling a meeting.   

But there’s a certain kind of meeting that is not so absurd. At least for you. And that is the meeting in which you are the star. You may not be leading the meeting—or “facilitating” it, as the meeting experts so clinically put it—but you’re the star. You’re fully aware of your role. You’ve had time to prepare. Perhaps you’re

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