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It's easy to blame your staff for unproductive meetings, but the reality is that your leadership role makes you accountable for using your meeting time wisely, says Patrick Lencioni, founder and president of The Table Group, Inc., a management-consulting firm in Emeryville, CA, and author of the book Death By Meeting (March 2004, Jossey-Bass).