Professionals lose 31 hours per month in unproductive meetings or approximately four days per month.  This figure makes it pretty clear, we need to improve meetings.  Meetings are critical to getting things done so we just can’t stop meeting.  Almost all meetings and anything critical to change in a business involves negotiation.  The problem with negotiation is once that word comes up everyone thinks competition and win at all costs, which is completely wrong on every level of business.