Comments for Ban Crackberries from Meetings? at http://www.stevenmsmith.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.stevenmsmith.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:04:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/management/ban-crackberries-from-meetings.html#comment-67 [url]http://davidmaister.com/blog/528/Meeting-Rules[/url] - George Dinwiddie Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:48:51 +0100 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/management/ban-crackberries-from-meetings.html#comment-66 Priceless, Dwayne. Happy Holidays, -Steve - Steve Smith Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:52:38 +0100 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/my-blogs/management/ban-crackberries-from-meetings.html#comment-65 Amen. I first encountered something similar to crackberries in meetings ten years ago. A manager I knew had to sit in endless upper manager meetings each day. He had his secretary print out about 3 dozen of his more important emails and put them in a folder. He would read his emails from the folder while sitting in meetings. I love to attend meetings, seminars, classes where there is WiFi available. That allows me to augment the subject via the web. Some people running meetings hate to see this. They want my undivided attention. My reply has always been that if the subject of the meeting is less interesting than is what is on the Internet, well improve your meeting. I am currently in the middle of a two week (super boring) class at work. The "facilitators" have told us several times to give our undivided attention to the guest speakers and that it "is rude" to be looking at papers while they are speaking. I have done a lot of practice writing during this class. :-) - Dwayne Phillips Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:41:47 +0100