Do you hate meetings? Here's why...

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murraybiscuit

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I found a brilliant article explaining why so many of us find meetings a total waste of time when we could be working. And why our bosses can't understand why things happen so slowly. My wife is a meeting person. It helped her understand things a bit better from my perspective :)

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Hope it helps some of you out there.
 
Hate meetings, especially if nothing productive comes out of it. I don't mind a meeting to discuss new features, with an agenda and work on a plan to execute it.

But then having a meeting about the same **** a week later, no thanks.
 
My previous manager used to hold meetings once a week for exactly an hour and it didn't matter how quickly we got through the agenda she would find a way to drag it out for that hour. Most times I just sat through those meetings bored as hell.
 
when i hold meetings with my team there is always an agenda with action points to move forward. Any meeting with no action points coming out of it is a waste. And if i schedule something for an hour, it usually ends before the hour is up. I like to get straight to the point
 
I like the one Idea I've heard of recently..

If you schedule a meeting in outlook and don't have a laid out agenda in the meeting request.. exchange automatically replies with denies for everyone...
 
ToxicBunny said:
I like the one Idea I've heard of recently..

If you schedule a meeting in outlook and don't have a laid out agenda in the meeting request.. exchange automatically replies with denies for everyone...
Click to expand...

i like. i hate agenda-less meetings. its so annoying.
 
thanks for taking the time to read the article GT. are you still studying or are you practicing?
 
My boss loves scheduling meetings 30 minutes before we go home, there is a whole day to have them in, but he will hold them then, drag them out and we will all get stuck in worse traffic than usual.
 
Predictable and repetitive meetings can be very boring.
To counteract this, I make things more interesting by

- calling everyone to a meeting at unexpected times and require them to drop whatever they were doing

- No agenda. You can find out what the meeting is about when you get there, and god help you if you're not fully prepared.

- announce a meeting and then make everyone wait an hour or two before actually arriving myself

- wait for everyone to arrive, and the cancel the meeting

- my personal favourite is calling a meeting at 06h00. Keeps the buggers on their toes. And if they complain, we change it to 05h00.

The key is to keep the staff alert by being unpredictable. They have to live in fear. It brings out the best in the workforce and is good for my business.
 
sweet. enjoy the coffee and sandpaper eyelids if you haven't finished yr exams yet.
 
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