Why meetings suck.
Posted on 21 January 2006 by Lord Brar
While going through my list of subscribed blogs at Bloglines I came across this post on Signal vs. Noise with the title - Meetings Considered Harmful.
Here are some reasons why David thinks that meetings suck -
- They break your working day into small, incoherent pieces on a schedule incompatible with the natural breaks in your flow
- They are normally all about words and abstract concepts, not real things (like a piece of code or a screen of design)
- They usually contain an abysmal low amount of information conveyed per minute
- They often contain at least one moron that inevitably get his turn to waste everyone’s time with nonsense
- They drift off subject easier than a rear-wheel driven Chicago cab in heavy snow
- They frequently have agendas so vague nobody is really sure what its about
- They require thorough preparation that people rarely do anyway
Coming soon - Why meeting suck and what to do about it. (I found the above list so funny that I couldn’t put off posting it before my article is finished.)
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:08 am
I read this post on their blog a while back too. You can’t just list the negatives about why meetings are bad without listing the positives.
January 23rd, 2006 at 6:44 am
Actually, this post was intended to be a part of an article-post that I working on.
Somehow I found this list amusing and couldn’t resist posting it.