Stand and be counted

Reports on the effectiveness of conducting a meeting where the participants are standing-up. Comparison of the time consumed at sit-down conferences with meetings at which participants stay on their feet.
By Marcus Wynne, published on January 01, 1999

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Sick of sitting through meetings that drag on and on? Try standing up, saysAllen Bluedorn, Ph.D., associate professor of management at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He's found that meetings at which all participants stay on their feet are a third shorter than sit-down conferences--and that the decisions made in them are just as sound.

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