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How to Run More Effective Meetings and Keep Your Team Focused

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47 seconds. That's how long the average person stays on one screen before switching to something else.

The number comes from Gloria Mark at the University of California, Irvine, who has spent two decades measuring what people actually do at their computers. When she started, the average was about two and a half minutes. It's been falling ever since.

In this episode, Dr. Donita Brown looks at what that means for anyone who runs a meeting. When you're presenting or giving feedback, you're competing with a brain trained to move every 47 seconds, and with the phone sitting face…

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