This could be wonderful. This could be disastrous. This could make or break careers. Or, at least, egos.
You may love meetings or not. I feel sure, however, that you generally have your own meeting strategy. Are you someone who likes to listen, then occasionally interject? Or are you the sort who can turn a meeting with the sheer force of your charismatic tones? Or perhaps you just play solitaire while it’s happening? Please let me tell you that your meeting life — perhaps your very meeting persona — may soon enjoy a radical shift. You see, Cisco’s Webex, the fine product with the less than fine advertising, is experimenting with giving meeting organizers an astonishing power: limiting how long each participant can speak. No longer can your head of sales smooth their way through sickly patter for endless minutes. No longer can your CMO experiment with knitting together a shawl of buzzwords, in order to make everyone feel as if they’re not down with marketing speak.
