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Stop wasting your time with meetings

6 January 2015 TED Talks Business Matters
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Well your not alone, according to David Grady an epidemic of bad, inefficient meetings plague the business world. This epidemic, known as Meaningless Acceptance Syndrome (MAS), is fast becoming commonplace.

Here Grady gives us some ideas on how to avoid MAS during his latest TED talk.

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