Mr. Manners steps into the boardroom

摘要

Stephen mill recently attended a company conference at DisneyWorld, where his firm, Robert Half Technology, was assembled for a strategy meeting. As the team filed into the meeting room, they were asked to hand over their BlackBerrys, says Mill, a vice-president at Robert Half. When you're bringing a group of people together and some of them are more focussed on incoming e-mail or celllphone calls, it's a time waster, he says.