PART 6

STRATEGIC MEETINGS

Deliver Results When You Meet

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

—SIR RICHARD BRANSON, CEO AND ENTREPRENEUR

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

—BERNARD BARUCH, FINANCIER, INVESTOR, AND PHILANTHROPIST

Meetings . . . are rather like cocktail parties. You don’t want to go but you’re cross not to be asked.

—JILLY COOPER, JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR