Bored Meeting: Experts doubt effectiveness of the business get-together.

The article discusses attitudes to the effectiveness of business meetings and factors that make them ideal. A meeting should have an agenda and must be the first business of the day. It ought to inform its participants of its purpose and its facilitator should break the group into teams to encourage participation from members. A meeting that needs to disseminate data ought to last for an hour while one that involves problem solving should be allowed to run its course.