How can we consistently provoke inspired conversation in all our business meetings? What would instigate a different level of engagement? What would produce a different level of solutions so that we actually spend less time in meetings?

Meeting unnecessarily is a kind of addiction -- we do it, but know it's bad for us. How can you get your work done when you spend, on average, 80 percent of your time in meetings?

For many of us, coping with meetings is more stressful than doing the actual work -- it often feels like not much is accomplished.

This experience left me with the distinct conviction that a paycheck is not synonymous with a license to bully people.

Now really, what's the point in having a network if you rarely connect with the people in it?

On the bad days, in off moments, it seems like my two years in business school were mostly about learning the definitions of a few key buzz words to use in meetings.

As the capital of information technology, Silicon Valley may have more gadgets per capita than any other place on the planet. Yet, even here, "always ...