{"id":86910,"date":"2018-05-01T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-planking-to-pizzas-the-new-rules-for-a-successful-meeting\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:03:22","slug":"from-planking-to-pizzas-the-new-rules-for-a-successful-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-planking-to-pizzas-the-new-rules-for-a-successful-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"From planking to pizzas: the new rules for a successful meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAmazon employees sit in silence \u2013 while Tesla boss Elon Musk advocates walking out if you aren\u2019t adding value. But how can you stop wasting your life in pointless meetings? Here\u2019s an expert guideSome human inventions flash into being, get a little polish and then are pretty much left alone, their users generally satisfied, or at least not so dissatisfied that they attempt to come up with an alternative. No one tries to build a better hankie, a more comforting cuddle or a dinner plate \u201cthat really works\u201d. Yet the search for the perfect business meeting seems never-ending. The caravan instead of the boardroom, the rubber chicken that bestows the right to speak: you name it, it has been tried and generally found to suck. Now Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, has had a go, creating what he calls \u201cthe weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter\u201d.Weird? Maybe, though other words that spring to mind include \u201canal\u201d and \u201cstultifying\u201d. As Bezos told the audience at the George W Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, he has banned the PowerPoint presentations that dominate most commercial meetings. Instead, some poor devil must spend a week or more preparing \u201ca six-page, narratively structured memo\u201d full of \u201creal sentences\u201d rather than bullet points. Everyone else must then spend the first half-hour of the meeting silently \u2013 and publicly \u2013 pondering it, before moving on to a debate. Bezos calls this \u201ca kind of study hall\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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