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Four Types of Meetings that Lead to Effective Organizations

CO2

Four Types of Meetings & Their Objectives. Like effective organizations, effective meetings have clearly defined roles and objectives. The objective should determine the type of meeting: decision-making, informational, creative, or motivational. Objective: solving a problem/coming to a decision. by Gary Cohen.

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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.