How to Run a Meeting. Antony Jay

      

      HOW TO RUN

      A MEETING

      Harvard Business Review

      CLASSICS

      HOW TO RUN

      A MEETING

      Antony Jay

      Harvard Business Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Originally published in Harvard Business Review in March 1976

      Reprint #76204

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