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45 Minute Meeting Movement

Written by Brandon Klein | May 25, 2010 2:35:10 PM
Every once in a while, a corporate campaign can have a significant impact on collaboration. Case in point is TimeBridge.* Their latest promotion is called the "45-Minute Meeting Movement."—a movement to champion more efficient meetings.
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Instead of scheduling your next meeting for an hour, try 45 minutes. You will notice the difference! 
Mike Song' book, "The Hamster Revolution for Meetings", reports that meeting attendees claim 43% of meeting time is wasted. When you consider the average professional is in 463 meetings a year, that is a very poor collaboration performance record.
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TimeBridge is also sponsoring a Twitter conversation with #45minmtg. Please join the conversation. 
Read more about meetings and how they can be more effective and collaborative in our Meetings Tag
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*TimeBridge is a web application that makes it incredibly easy to schedule and lead great meetings—and follow up after you meet. Think of us as your calendar-wrangling, agenda-making, note-taking, team-motivating, secret weapon in the battle against workplace inefficiency.