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Four Types of Meetings that Lead to Effective Organizations

CO2

There are four primary objectives for meetings: Solving a problem/coming to a decision; Introducing key information synchronously and dynamically; Generating the best and greatest number of original ideas; Gaining commitment around a change effort. They ought not to share too much stakeholder analysis at the meeting, however.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.