Apropos Meetings: the Internet provides a lot of comments, guidelines and calculators. We have selected some links for you to document that there are a lot of more or less useful hints. These hints are very much focused on supporting or improving the process but there is almost no advice how to facilitate efficient meetings and how to support sound decision making.

• Living in a world of meetings 
• Meeting Basics
• The seven sins of deadly meetings
• Meetings are a waste of time
• Executives believe one-quarter of meetings are unnecessary
• Meetings bloody meetings (a challenge at least since 1974)
• Bad meeting design (an interactive showcase)
• Immer beschäftigt, aber nicht effizient (only in German)

• Basic Guide to Conducting Effective Meetings
• Meeting Management
• Meetings bloody meetings
• Meetings effektiv gestalten (only in German)
• Meetings optimieren – aber wie? (only in German)

• ROI Calculator No 1 and ROI Calculator No 2 and ROI Calculator No 3 ... tbc.
• Very nice Meeting Cost Calculator (including CO² emissions)
• A quick comparison between online and physical meetings
• Another cost calculator
• Meeting Ticker
• Wie teuer sind Ihre Besprechungen? (only in German)
• Kosten von Meetings (only in German)

• vendor-independent review of web conferencing solutions

• Dilbert Pre-Meeting of a Meeting
• Geek & Poke - How to meet efficiently
• Unsere ergebnisorierte Meeting-Kultur (only in German - (hörenswert))

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