Unless you're very lucky, you've probably had to sit through more than your share of pointless, interminable meetings. Instead of promoting key decision making, information sharing, and productive collaboration, such meetings tend to be ill-planned, poorly run, and plagued by time-consuming digressions. Fortunately, it's possible to steer meetings in a more positive direction. Project management experts Shannon Kalvar, Mike Sisco, and Tom Mochal have identified several strategies for making meetings beneficial for everyone involved. This collection offers some of their suggestions. (from article)