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There are many things that world’s renowned management schools don’t teach you. It might take a book to list all of them here but in this post I want to focus on one of them. And it is about  conducting meetings effectively. I don’t believe in the school of thought that proposes that meetings are useless. Meetings themselves aren’t unproductive but meetings run unskilfully are indeed unproductive. Meetings are necessary for collaboration and collaboration is foundation of everything good that happens in the organizations. As much as meetings are necessary, conducting the meetings effectively is one of the most underrated skills, something that doesn’t get as much attention/training as it deserves. While writing this, I got reminded of this tweet from Vala Afshar that truly conveys the universal negligence around meetings. Having said all this, its not that people, organizations and thought-leaders have put in ample efforts to fine-tune meetings in the organizations. One such effor...