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There are many really wonderful benefits of meetings. One is an opportunity to have “time-out” while looking conscientious. Meetings take minutes but waste hours. You can write shopping lists, looking as if you are scrupulously taking notes. You can gaze earnestly at slides while thinking about holiday plans. You can surreptitiously do some Blackberrying with-out many noticing.
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© 2012 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2012). Loafers, suckers and free-riders. In: The Talented Manager. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369764_38
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