You know your arguments—in this case, your industry’s arguments—are beginning to take when they pop up in unexpected places.
So it was a nice antidote to some of the scarier news bites pervading the industry when two different colleagues pointed me to Don’t Cancel That Meeting, a blog post by leadership consultant John Baldoni that appeared January 5 on the Harvard Business Publishing website.
As a meeting professional, how would you have felt if you’d received the following RFP?
Meeting dates: December 15-31
Scope: Nation-wide (United States only)
Estimated participants: 50,400
Room nights: None
Venues: 4,200
Average participants per venue: 12
Food and beverage: Provided
Audio-visual requirements: None
Air travel: None
Carbon footprint: Local ground transportation; public transit and carpools encouraged
Mythical client: US Department of Health and Human Services
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