jpberthiaume's posterous

Meetings get a bad rap in business today and for good reason—very little gets accomplished in them. I can recall a Dilbert cartoon in which several people sat around a table while the meeting organizer said, "There is no specific agenda for this meeting. As usual, we'll just make unrelated emotional statements about things which bother us…

I certainly partake in the full array of terribly unproductive meetings as well as the most productive of meetings. Letting the most busy of people run the meetings usually results in the best of meetings. They want to accomplish the goal (at least as it appears to them) and move on.