10/04/2018

Oprah Winfrey Uses the Same 3 Sentences to Launch Every Meeting

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Many meetings limp to a start. The group sits waiting for people to straggle in late. Others want to keep chatting about "important" but unrelated topics: The dreaded "since I have you here" move that turns the group's agenda into a personal one. Still, others keep texting and emailing while the leader struggles to get everyone focused.

That's a huge problem, since meetings that get off to a slow start rarely recover.

Brendon Burchard, the author of High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way, says Oprah starts every meeting the same way: She says: "What is our intention for this meeting? What's important? What matters?"

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