I think that in many organisations there are a group of people that can be described a 'professional meeting goers'. We all know the type. The more meetings they go to the more important they think they are. It becomes their job. The more meetings they go to the 'busier' they are. The busier they are the more the excuses are rolled out for projects or work streams not moving forward. Also what happens to the work that they are meant to be doing - ie the one that they are hired to do. Other people end up picking up the slack in one way or another.

I do not have a problem with short meetings per se, but I do have a problem with the amount of meetings that seem to happen. I seem to spend a lot of time fending off invitaions to meetings that I do not really need to be at. Worse still I get a 'must attend' invite and find I am only really there for the last agenda item, by which time no one is really interested (half of the people may have left to another meeting!!). I also worry about the amount of meetings I have attended where there are good quality actions that never actually happen. :w00t: