The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science

“A meeting is an event where minutes are kept and the hours are lost” and “Meetings the practical alternative to work”. These humorous comments are very true about so many meetings to which people rush and at which no real progress is made; indeed, The Cambridge Handbook of Meeting Science addresses this in a section on They Meet, They Talk […] but Nothing Changes.

No matter what, the organization meetings are a key facet of organizational life, and some individuals spend a considerable amount of time in such meetings. Meetings can be a valuable means of providing information to people,...