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&lt;p&gt;Have you ever sat through a meeting that has no set purpose, goes nowhere, and wastes the time of pretty much everyone involved?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course you have: that&#39;s pretty much the definition of &quot;meeting&quot; in many companies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But what if there were another way?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Imagine a promised land where meetings didn&#39;t devolve into the loudest person grandstanding regardless of their actual knowledge or ability, or your colleagues taking jabs at one another without naming names in order to explain why thie thing they&#39;re responsible for isn&#39;t as good as it could be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In that place, the person running the meeting would probably be able to say, with a straight face, that &quot;I like to have a clear agenda, know what we&#39;re trying to get done, get it done as quickly as possible, and move on.&quot; (And, yes: someone would actually be &lt;em&gt;running&lt;/em&gt; the meeting.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, such places do exist—at least according to the following video from the &lt;em&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/em&gt;, in which a selection of leaders from companies such as YouTube, Microsoft and Ford share their tips for running meetings that actually accomplish something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it&#39;s important to note that none of the other attendees at these mythical meetings (i.e. the employees) are featured in the video, so we can&#39;t tell how the advice we&#39;re being given actually plays out in the real world. But if you&#39;re interested in the theory of what makes for a good meeting, you could do worse than spend the 55 seconds it will take to watch the clip.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;512&quot; height=&quot;288&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; webkitallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; mozallowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;https://video-api.wsj.com/api-video/player/v3/iframe.html?guid=6C204886-67C2-4940-896C-E62741E0AD98&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;

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