# Get more out of meetings with TextExpander

<http://simplicitybliss.com/post/15179345258/get-more-out-of-meetings-with-textexpander>

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- Saved: December 22, 2011 (2011-12-23T05:22:47Z)
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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

I am on a managers schedule as opposed to a makers schedule. Whether you think this is a bad or good thing, it certainly means that I have a lot of meetings each day. Given that I work in an international cooperation that has a complex, multi-dimensional and geographical distributed organisation, many of my meetings are either audio, web or video conferences. It comes as no surprise that many of these meetings are poorly prepared with no clear agenda or objective. If you have five of these on a day, you really look back and ask yourself what you have achieved other than burning valuable lifetime on the phone. But you either accept the status quo or the responsibility to change it. Changing it means you need to set an example, independent of where in the hierarchy you sit. For those meetings that I host or which I at least co-host or influence, I have changed my approach from the typical lets wing it to more conscious preparation. It surprisingly doesnt really take much more time, but delivers significantly improved results.

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