I took that right from Jerry Colonna’s most recent post, Board Meetings that Suck.  There’s an entire list of reasons why board meetings (and really, meetings in general) suck, along with a nice list of suggestions to combat the suckiness of these meetings.

The first one in this second list, “Set and KEEP to the agenda”, hit me over the head a few months back.  After doing a few meetings, both virtually and in person, I quickly came to realize that it wasn’t my time that mattered, it was the time of those in the meeting that mattered.  I needed to get my pitch across to these folks in the time allotted, and according to the agenda I set.

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