Misery of Dysfunctional Meetings

Are meetings at your company a useless, frustrating waste of time?

Do they provide a bully a forum to rant, rave and manipulate?

Are reasonable people intimidated into silence?

If so, welcome to the living hell of dysfunctional meetings.

The Three Pillars of Dysfunctional Meetings
1. Objectives are meaningless	2. Committees are powerless	3. Bully is allowed to dominate meetings
- Discuss vague platitudes instead of underlying problems - Ignore causes of low morale and low productivity - Ignore negative environment created by bully	- Creates impression that issues are being addressed - No authority to investigate bully's behavior problems - No power to take actions to resolve issues	- Stifles healthy progress in meetings - Dominates meetings by aggressive conversational style - Attacks anyone who threatens his dominance of meetings - Prevents clear identification of himself as the problem - Shifts blame for problems he has created - Provides misleading information

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