Did your latest keynoter leave attendees with a case of katahara itai (Japanese for laughing so hard their tummies hurt)? Or, heaven forbid, did you have a nakkele at your banquet (A Tulu, India word for someone who licks the plate food is served...

A few years ago, I was researching a story about gender differences in meetings, and came across an interesting study from some Canadian researchers. Women generally don’t ask questions anywhere near as much as men in a mixed-gender session, but...

I just heard of this icebreaker idea, and thought it sounded like fun...

For Hurricane Rita watchers: A good combination of Google maps and hurricane-tracking data is here...

Gary the Sabre Geek has a sobering look at how Delta plans to cut $3 billion in costs—and what the result could be if Northwest does something similar. He says...

While Katrina was devastating in so many ways, it sounds, from this Smith Travel Research Report, like it's not going to have too bad an effect on the hospitality industry...

According to Tuesday's Houston Chronicle, the Texas Association of School Boards and Texas Association of School Administrators have decided to postpone their convention in the city this weekend until later in the year due to Rita's untimely...

With Hurricane Rita bearing down on the Texas coast, Freeman and AVW-TELAV are getting out of dodge—Houston, that is—in accordance with their company-wide Disaster Recovery Plan, which they put into play during the aftermath of Katrina as well...

Can't resist these snarky remarks from The Onion (a satire site)...

The power of questions for effective meetings is undeniable, I think. Yet we usually approach strategy meetings, in particular, focusing on answers, not the questioning process itself. There's a great post on Fast Company Now about how approaching...