Purchase a Conference Table With Purpose

Here's one from the "I never would have thought about that" file: The Wall Street Journal's Independent Street blog suggests that different shaped conference tables will get you different results in a meeting. Buy a round one and you'll find yourself leaving a meeting with a lot of loose ends. Long and thin? Your employees will form cliques, which will hamper teamwork.

The perfect conference table, the blog says? Rectangular and about five feet long.