Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
6. No chairs. People will soon learn to focus on what must be done and skip all the B.S. before they get tired.<p>7. No cell phones or laptops. People must focus on the task at hand and nothing else.<p>8. Lock the door at the start time and don't unlock it for anyone. People will soon learn to show up on time.<p>9. Designate a referee to say "One at a time," "Take that off-line," or "So what?" Amazing how well kindergarten rules still work.<p>10. Kill anyone who says any of these words or phrases: scope, mission, best practices, teaching moment, outside the box, domain, tangent, or <x> is the new <y>.