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channels, delegation in to sub-groups and presentations can be very necessary...

• anotheryou 9y ago
  There is just good and bad ways to do it. Short meetings need delegation when discussions break loose, presentations for communication between departments, channels for repeating things like support escalation.
• valuearb 9y ago
  Those are all signs the meeting was unnecessary.
  • dkarl 9y ago
    On the contrary, if a meeting is unnecessary, you can afford to spend the time on whatever tangents and pet causes the attendees want to bring up, so you don't need to bother with channels and delegation. If a meeting has been convened for an important purpose, it has to be protected against people trying to hijack it for less important things, by deflecting those things to other channels and other groups. (Of course you can't get sucked into the morass of authorizing and organizing subgroups right there or it doesn't help much.)
  • walshemj 9y ago
    No a clever chair can shunt unwanted discussion of to a subcommittee or defer it to another meeting.