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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.