Re: Meetings -- ARRGGHHH!!!

[T S <tens00 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Fortunately, I work from home so my meetings are phone calls. If it's gone
past what I need to be involved in, I multitask. Sometimes I excuse myself
as well with the reason being I have another meeting.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Downing, David <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>wrote:

> I just got dragged into a meeting that I was told would last 15 minutes
> and went on for 45 because several people got hung up on one specific
> point, which didn't even concern me. I just read an article in that same
> issue of INTERCOM about effective meetings, but nobody else seems to be
> aware of the principles discussed therein, or is unwilling to enforce
> them. The problem is, I wasn't in a position to do anything about it
> because I was an invited guest. What do you all do when you get into
> situations like that besides just grit your teeth?
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