Professionals know how to run Meetings - 2 excellent articles

How much time and money is wasted by poorly run meetings? How much more effective would we be and how much more profitable would our companies be if our meetings and all the meetings in our company were well run?

As productive and invigorating as a well run meeting is, a poorly run meeting can suck the life out of an entire team. Enough poorly run meetings destroy organization morale. Time spent learning how to run a meeting professionally is a game changer. 

Here are a couple of excellent articles on how to effectively run and facilitate meetings:

How to Run a Meeting Like Google - BusinessWeek

How to run meetings - Harvard Business Review