A Survival Guide For Office Meetings: Bring Your Own Toys.

Offers advice to workers who are required to attend office meetings. Examples of the non-work related things workers do while in meetings; Comments from John E. Tropman, a University of Michigan organization-management professor who uses faculty meetings to grade papers, regarding the unintended usefulness of meetings; Estimated amount of money lost each year because of meetings, according to Tropman, who is the author of several books on how to make meetings more efficient; Terms used to describe meetings in an effort to make them seem more important; Comments from Bernie DeKoven, who ran the Institute for better Meetings for more than 15 years, suggesting meetings are ceremonies designed to reinforce the hierarchy.