What You Don't Want to Know About Bad Meetings
Bad meetings are a cultural malady that senior executives pass
on to new employees.
Long pointless meetings are useful in that they keep incompetent
people from interfering with those who are working.
An employee who needs permission to buy a box of paperclips can
spend tens of thousands of dollars worth of employee time on bad
meetings.
Many people attempt to save time by Not planning. This false
short cut guarantees that everyone will spend more time later.
Unstructured spontaneity leads to serendipity, which (in
business) leads to bankruptcy.
Meetings are a magnetic opiate that keep people from the tasks
they were hired to perform.
The main activity in many meetings consists of simple chit chat.
If it's an important meeting, then this becomes sincere chit
chat.
A meeting without an agenda is like a journey without a map.
A teleconference without an agenda is like a journey without a
map, in the dark.
Most meetings are social street lamps attracting the
unproductive moths in an organization.
People fail to prepare an agenda for two reasons. They think
they