CHAPTER EIGHT CRITICAL THINKING ASSIGNMENT

Deborah Tannen writes: “Why should meetings be so frustrating? A large source of dissatisfaction is the conviction that your time is being taken up without obvious results; another is the feeling that you are not being heard. In that sense, meetings are a pressure-cooker microcosm of the workplace: A diverse group of people, with their own ideas, comes together to get a job done.” Discuss Tannen’s comments. Suggest guidelines from your text that could help alleviate the two sources of frustration she writes about.