Re:Stop having pointless meetings
by ectospheno on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:46PM
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In the 18 years I have worked in the defense industry I can say with all honesty that every single meeting I have attended that had no agenda distributed to participants beforehand was a complete waste of time and taxpayer money. Managers that believe meetings can be productive with no agenda have plagued our feeble earth for far too long.
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Not having an agenda is one thing. Not having an idea about what the meeting's result should be is another.
While the former is still unfortunate, it can easily be taken care of within the meeting collaboratively. The latter is harder to come up with in an ad-hoc fashion, but it's still possible.
I agree that in an optimal world, every meeting is planned appropriately beforehand and meetings that aren't necessary do not exist. In reality, that's not the case. So you have to deal with that.
Just complaining will not help.