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Everyone loves meetings! Who isn’t a fan of those congenial time wasters common in the government, where an entire organization piles into a poorly ventilated auditorium to hear the leadership explain things that could have just been an email?

Okay, no one loves them, but when I worked for the Department of Defense, they weren’t that onerous a requirement, especially because I was merely an academic who could play Scrabble on my phone while some visiting admiral talked about … well, honestly, I don’t remember what they talked about. (We had a lot of those meetings.) I was not, however, a senio

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