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Most people would have to refer back to their meeting calendar or email inbox before giving an accurate answer.  \nIn business, your team’s time should be hyper-focused on your Strategic Priorities. The reality is most companies lose focus and people start “chasing squirrels”: spreading their energy over many less important tasks instead of focusing on their strategic projects. Meetings are where you can nip that in the bud.  \n © [Copyright RESULTS.com](Copyright RESULTS.com), 2014. eBook: Meetings That Drive Results 2  \nMeeting reality: why meetings are ineffective  \nOur research was unanimous: when asked what people consider their biggest time suck, the answer was meetings. Consider these stats from the Harvard Business Review, 2014,“Your Scarcest Resource:”  \n15% of an organization’s collective time is spent in meetings 67% of meetings are rated as “ineffective” by managers 92% of people admit multitasking during meetings  \n$37 Billion wasted on unproductive meetings / year in the USA  \nThis may surprise you, but we believe meetings can be the most productive and effective time you spend in business (if done right) .  \nMeetings get a bad rap. People hate them. They think that meetings are gigantic wastes of time. In 2011, Harris Interactive surveyed more than 2,000 workers about status meetings, and 70 percent said that status meetings don't help them accomplish their work.  \nA Microsoft survey tracking office productivity contacted 38,000 workers around the world to identify\"productivity pitfalls. \" Respondents reported that two out of every five days on the job were wasted. The main culprit: \"ineffective meetings.\"  \nIt doesn't have to be that way. If you want to become a great company, you have to hold productive meetings.  \n © [Copyright RESULTS.com](Copyright RESULTS.com), 2014. eBook: Meetings That Drive Results 3  \nMeeting reality: why meetings are ineffective  \nOne of our favourite observers of life in corporate America is Scott Adams' comic-strip character, Dilbert. He is the voice of all the people who contact Adams to tell him about their work and frustration. Over the years, Adams has devoted dozens of cartoons to the subject of meetings. As he notes, many attempts to“fix” meetings are misguided. Here's a quote from the cartoon for November 23, 2008:  \n\"It's not a meeting until someone's time gets wasted. \"  \n© [Copyright RESULTS.com](Copyright RESULTS.com), 2014. eBook: Meetings That Drive Results 4  \nMeeting reality: why meetings are ineffective  \nWasting time is bad enough, but some meetings also miss opportunities. Dr. Jesse Lyn Stoner helps teams improve their performance. She often observes teams at work so she can understand what issues they need to work on. That means that she attends a lot of boring meetings. On her fiftieth birthday, she found herself in what she says was the most boring meeting of her life. Here is the way she describes it:  \n\"I was observing a four-hour team meeting of the company's president and his eight direct reports. Sitting around a table, one at a time, each person reported what was happening in his or her area . The president asked questions. The others listened until it was their turn. 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