Once upon a time, my very favorite manager wanted to review the high level schedule for his software product. So he called a meeting among all the managers who

Once upon a time, my very favorite manager wanted to review the high level schedule for his software product. So he called a meeting among all the managers who worked for him. At ten, maybe fifteen minutes past the hour, everyone had finally made it into the room, random issues with projectors and computers and missing files had been resolved, and everyone was ready to present. The manager scowled. "People, if you can't run a meeting on time, I don't know how you're ever going to run a program on time." Attendance was prompt thereafter.