The inescapable meeting, a necessary yet painful reality of working in corporate America. We all have to sit through them and some of us even lead them. You may even be in one right now as you are reading this blog. In fact, there are nearly fifty-five million meetings held every day in this country at an annual cost of 1.4 trillion dollars a year. There is no doubt that this fixture of American work-life is an expensive and time-consuming reality that we just can’t seem to get right. That…