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The economic impact of bad meetings

You know the feeling: You get invited to a meeting by a person you don’t really know, about a project you’ve barely heard of, and you’re not sure how you can best contribute to the meeting. Click. You accept anyway. Find out just how much time this simple act wastes, and what you can do about it, from David Grady (TED Talk: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings) and Jason Fried (TED Talk: Why work doesn’t happen at work).