“I don’t feel the need to persuade you that most meetings stink. I am confident that you have passed enough wasted hours in a meeting room to know that painful truth. Sadly, just last week I spent two hours in a confabulation that should have taken 20 minutes. I am in the business of making simple what are complex issues. In that tradition, I have pinpointed two reasons why meetings stink…”

“…a recent issue of BusinessWeek magazine … devoted many pages to listing the corporations and individuals who have been the most generous… To make the list, I would have had to give or pledge more than $120 million from 2001 to 2005 — that’s the amount pledged or given by No. 50 on the list, Analogic founder Bernard Gordon. More impressive, his net worth is estimated at $125 million and it’s believed he has given some $125 million in his lifetime. That’s pretty great!”