Leader Quote by Marcia W. Blenko

Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

— Lois Wyse

Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

— Peter Drucker

“There seems to be a culture in many organisations of simply holding meetings as a substitute for actually getting on with the job.”

— Ian Cooper

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their…

— Ken Blanchard

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if…

— Stephen Covey

“There are a few reasons. Most pre-call strategy meetings neglect soft skills in their analysis of the opportunity. For example, what is the personality…

— Colleen Stanley

Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely…

— Michael Foley

A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.

— Nancy Kline

If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also…

— Martin Zwilling

“It has been shown in business meetings that once a person has been given the opportunity to speak, that person is more likely to…

— Peter Pronovost

Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in…

— Mark McCormack

I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better…

— Stephen Covey