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e sure everyone knows ahead of time what is to be accomplished at every meeting. People can do their homework, which will make discussion more meaningful. Less time will be wasted watching others “gather their thoughts.”

2. Start and end on time. Being flexible for

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Soon after I finished a brief seminar on how to accomplish more in less time every day, Roger shook my hand and said, “I can use what you said. But there is one thing you didn’t talk about. It is something that drives me crazy. I can’t get anything done because I’m in meetings all day long. We have gone overboard on meetings. We discuss practically everything as a team before making decisions.” I asked Roger for his card and I called him later that afternoon with some ideas that could help get him and his team out of their meetings trap.

Don’t let meetings keep you from getting your work accomplished. It’s not uncommon for meetings to claim more than 50% of a business owner’s or manager’s time, especially when you factor in waiting time, discussion that is unfocused, and appointments that have to be rescheduled. Many key businesspeople claim meetings are their biggest time waster. Can anything be done? Yes. Here are five smart tips to streamline meetings and minimize the potential disruption they cause:

1. Have an agenda and distribute it ahead of time. Make sure everyone knows ahead of time what is to be accomplished at every meeting. People can do their homework, which will make discussion more meaningful. Less time will be wasted watching others “gather their thoughts.”

2. Start and end on time. Being flexible for l

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tings all day long. We have gone overboard on meetings. We discuss practically everything as a team before making decisions.” I asked Roger for his card and I called him later that afternoon with some ideas that could help get him and his team out of their meetings trap.

2. Start and end on time. Being flexible for

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be rescheduled. Many key businesspeople claim meetings are their biggest time waster. Can anything be done? Yes. Here are five smart tips to streamline meetings and minimize the potential disruption they cause:

2. Start and end on time. Being flexible for

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2. Start and end on time. Being flexible for latecomers backfires -- it penalizes the on-time people. It also sends a subtle signal to everyone that deadlines are merely suggestions, which can cause all sorts of disruptions later.

3. Take minutes at every meeting and include follow-up assignments. Be sure to identify who will do what and by when. This holds people accountable to the group for getting done what they said they'd get done -- which eventually frees up some of your time because you won't have to sit in another waste of time meeting listening to clever excuses.

4. Keep regularly scheduled meetings, i.e., the weekly staff meeting, to the bare bones minimum for time. For socializing and team building, plan different functions – don’t use meetings.

5. Get rid of the chairs. It’s amazing, but people who can’t sit say what they have to say faster and in fewer words!

Roger said he could see where each of these ideas would work in his office.

Put into practice these smart tips for managing meetings and you’ll enjoy the luxury of more time for focusing on your real work.

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For much of the twentieth century, state-owned utilities in the UK were favoured over privately-owned suppliers. In the last 15 years the pendulum has swung the other way favouring privatisation and state regulatory structures for monopoly activities. The management of these utilities need to recognise that the current market dominance of their firm probably owes very little to competitive success and much more to the legal privileges that are now being removed. Once markets are liberalised the incumbent former monopolies are extremely vulnerable unless they can identify and develop the competencies necessary to thrive in regulated and increasingly competitive markets. They have an advantage. Their existing size and market penetration provides time to undertake the strategic reappraisal and to experiment with strategies. The incumbent should benefit from economies of scale and scope, learning curve advantages, control of strategic assets and customer switching costs. But in the longer term such advantages are unlikely to provide sufficient protection against the effects of competition and regulatory pressures. At that time, only one thing can help these firms sustain in their markets, the power of their corporate brand and corporate reputation.

Are you out of a job? Are you bored, underpaid or generally dissatisfied with your present job? Only you can make the difference and change what ever it is that you are doing now.

If every deal is a new deal your time will be spent trying to keep up instead of think of ways to get new business.

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