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11 Tricks Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, And Other Famous Execs Use To Run Meetings

Drake BaerNov 24, 2014, 22:30 IST

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Americans sit through some 11 million meetings every day - with the unproductive ones costing companies $37 billion a year.

We've already learned that meetings fall apart thanks to sloppy agendas, un-articulated ground rules, and other structural mistakes.

So we decided to look at how some of the most effective executives in history - from GM czar Alfred Sloan to Apple prince Steve Jobs to Facebook queen Sheryl Sandberg - run the meetings that invariably fill their calendars.

Here's what we found.

Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.