TY - GEN ED - Harvard Business Review TI - HBR guide to making every meeting matter SN - 9781633692176 U1 - 658.4​ HAR PY - 2017/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard Business Review Press KW - Business Meetings -- Handbooks, Manuals KW - Planning N2 - Meetings. They hold such promise for moving your business forward, but they rarely deliver. We all know the steps we're supposed to take to run an effective meeting, but we seldom follow them. Why? Perhaps it just doesn't seem worth the time to pinpoint what we want to accomplish, craft an agenda, handpick participants, issue prework, and, after the meeting, send out notes summarising key decisions and next steps. But meeting preparation and follow-up is time well spent. This guide offers practical tips to make your meetings easier to prepare for, more enjoyable to run, and more productive. In time, these steps will become so ingrained you won't be able to imagine running a meeting any other way. ER -