Deborah Tannen Writes: "Why Should Meetings Be So Frustrating? a Large

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Deborah Tannen writes: "Why should meetings be so frustrating? A large source of dissatisfaction is the conviction that your time is being taken up without obvious results; another is the feeling that you are not being heard.In that sense,meetings are a pressure-cooker microcosm of the workplace: A diverse group of people,with their own ideas,comes together to get a job done." Discuss Tannen's comments.Suggest guidelines from your text that could help alleviate the two sources of frustration she writes about.

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