I am usually the first person to start fidgeting in any meeting. Most of the time, I attribute this to my short attention span or my impatience. But sometimes I attribute  it to the meeting leader’s poor facilitation skills.

Apparently, I’m not alone in my frustration. According to a May 2014 Harvard Business Review article:

• 15% of collective organizational time is spent in meetings. This percentage has only increased since 2008.
• Executives consider 56% of these meetings to be unproductive
• 49% of attendees admit to doing other, unrelated work during meetings

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