Meetings are an important part of any business, and a well run meeting can yield extremely positive results, but are they all necessary? Office workers around the world are having their time stolen because we are in the habit of mindlessly accepting meeting requests as soon as they pop up in our email. We believe that we are powerless to, and must suffer through, these bad meetings.

In this humorous and thought provoking TED Talk, information security professional David Grady discusses how you can avoid bad meetings and take back your calendar. The epidemic of inefficient, overcrowded meetings plaguing the business world today is at least partially self-inflicted. Freeing yourself from bad meetings may be as simple as clicking the tentative button on your next invitation.

To learn more, watch the video How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings.