BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Minutes
- an official written record of the proceedings of a meeting. Minutes normally record points for action, and indicate who is responsible for implementing decisions. Good practice requires that the minutes of a meeting be circulated well in advance of the next meeting, and that those attending that meeting read the minutes in advance. Registered companies are required to keep minutes of meetings and make them available at their registered offices for inspection by company members and shareholders.
Wiktionary Definition for: Minutes
- The official notes kept during a meeting.
- Plural of ''minute''.
Additional Resources
- When It Comes To Corporate Minutes, Saying Less Is Often Better
- Saying less is often better when it comes to corporate minutes. Minutes have two purposes: to inform and to protect. The purpose of this article is to give some guidelines for accomplishing both. When preparing minutes, consider the following three questions : "Who is the intended audience for these minutes?",...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Skip the Coffee, Power-Nap for 20 Minutes to Combat Afternoon Fatigue
- Skip the Coffee, Power-Nap for 20 Minutes to Combat Afternoon Fatiguere: Skip the Coffee, Power-Nap for 20 Minutes to Combat Afternoon FatigueI had a coworker that would take afternoon naps in her car for 20-30 minutes, and set her cell phone as an alarm. She was always more perky...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- NAD: Novartis's Excedrin Ads Are Misleading; It Mostly Doesn't Work in "15 Minutes or Less"
- Wyeth has forced Novartis into a corner regarding advertising for Novartis's Extra-Strength Excedrin. Novartis had been advertising Excedrin with the line, "Start relieving your headache in just 15 minutes." Wyeth, not believing that claim, challenged Novartis to prove it in a hearing at the National Division of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Did a Non-Profit Subsidize 60 Minutes?
- In early May, we asked the question, "Does Non-Profit Media Have a Competitive Edge?" This is proving to be an ever-more urgent question as conventional news companies continue to bleed money and jobs, spurring alternative business models to emerge. To cut to the quick, however, any advantages...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- IDT Telecom Achieves Record Minutes-of-Use for Christmas and New Year's Day
- NEWARK, N.J. -- IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT, IDT.C) is pleased to announce that its IDT Telecom subsidiary surpassed the 100-million minute mark for minutes-of-use for both Christmas and New Year's Day. IDT racked up a record 107- million minutes on Christmas Day and more than 100-million minutes on New Year's...
- Research articles 2005-01-04
- ALLEY FIRMS SEEK 60 MINUTES OF FAME.
- Companies usually aren't pleased when a crew from 60 Minutes turns up on their premises. But the CBS news program is getting a warm welcome from publicity-hungry start-ups in Silicon Alley. The show's new spinoff, 60 Minutes II, is preparing a repo Companies usually...
- Research articles 1999-05-17
- Best Buy Stores to Sell Inecom Entertainment Company's ''Civil War Minutes'' Series
- PITTSBURGH -- Inecom Entertainment Company announced that Best BuyTM Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has selected all volumes of its "Civil War MinutesTM" series DVD box sets for sale in its stores. "Gettysburg and Stories of Valor - Civil War MinutesTM III," "Civil War MinutesTM - Confederate," and "Civil War MinutesTM -...
- Research articles 2004-11-29
- -STRATEGY ANALYTICS: New mobile phone users value 'free' minutes
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 July 1998-STRATEGY ANALYTICS: New mobile phone users value 'free' minutes C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:020798 Non-users of cellular services in Europe put bundled minutes top of their list for increasing purchase likelihood Non-users' cellular purchase decision is influenced most heavily by the number...
- Research articles 1998-07-02
- Public Speaking: The First 3 Minutes
- This is it! You've landed your first Public Speaking engagement. You've have prepared and rehearsed. You are all ready to give your best presentation ever. As you begin you have exactly 3 minutes of your presentation to grab the audience attention and build rapport to ensure they buy in to...
- White papers 2007-09-13
- How To Reduce Your Time Management Stress In 15 Minutes Per Week?
- This paper explains how to reduce your time management stress in 15 minutes per week: invest 15 minutes each week to reduce your stress and get more value from your time; how do you wrap up your week now?; before you close shop at the end of the week take...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Fed to release minutes earlier
- WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it would begin releasing minutes from its interest rate meetings about a month earlier than it has been, a move that could help economists and investors gain insight into the U.S. central bank. In the latest in a series of moves...
- Research articles 2004-12-15
- A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation, and chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo
- A novel technology that can test cells in minutes for responses to any stimulus, including antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, radiation, and chemotherapy, has been developed by scientists at the University at Buffalo (N.Y.). "Now, in a matter of minutes, we can tell if particular antibiotics are active against specific bacteria. We...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Slowdown made FOMC pause easier call in Sept: minutes
- WASHINGTON AFP — Clear signs of softening economic conditions removed doubts in the minds of Federal Reserve members about their decision in September to hold interest rates steady, minutes showed. The minutes of the September 20 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's policymaking arm, said the...
- Research articles 2006-10-11
- On Third Night at RNC, FOX Aired 16 Minutes More than at DNC; Will FOX Air Only 33 Minutes on Night Four?
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- After the third night of the Republican National Convention RNC, Media Matters for America found that FOX News Channel has aired 39 minutes more of live speech coverage of the first three nights of the RNC than it aired of the first three nights...
- Research articles 2004-09-02
- The pulver.com Minutes Exchange Opens for Business
- MELVILLE, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 10, 1998--Jeff Pulver, founder of Min-X.com, "The Minutes Exchange" http://pulver.com/min-x/ stated that "Our first virtual trading desk, The IP Telephony Minutes Desk, is now open for business. We have received strong market support from leading Internet Telephony Service Providers ("ITSPs") and are looking forward to providing our...
- Research articles 1998-11-10
- Be a Better Leader in 15 Minutes a Day
- The Find: Even the busiest manager can find the time to mentor employees with this executive coach's simple system. The Source: Executive coach and author Daisy Wademan Dowling writing on the Harvard Business Review Conversation Starter blog. The Takeaway: In a...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Effective Leadership Skills: Meetings, Agendas, Minutes
- Leadership seems to encapsulate so many different qualities and be a quality of character or style, charisma or indefinable spirit. Even the most powerfully charismatic leader can be unsuccessful unless they have the right tools of leadership at their command. Understanding the importance of record keeping through minutes to record...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 15 Seconds Vs. 15 Minutes Designing for High Availability
- The paradigm of requiring 15 minutes of battery backup for UPS system reliability is an antiquated and flawed perception. When properly integrated, standby generators can and will reliably take load in 10 seconds or less. This eliminates the need for lead acid batteries and extended backup time. The intolerance to...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Managing in the New Millennium: Ten Tips to Better Using Your 1440 Minutes
- Too often people say that if they just had more time, they could be more productive. They may see many other people who are indeed more productive. And yet they have the same 24 hours and the same 1440 minutes in the day as everyone else. What makes the difference...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- File It: Boost Your Productivity in Only 15 Minutes Per Week
- Each individual should allocate 15 minutes each week for filing. Depending on the state he is in at the beginning, he may need to allocate more time than this to get on top of the task - but from then on, 15 minutes per week should be a small enough...
- White papers 2005-03-14
