Meetings aren't the problem, in my opinion. People who don't know how to properly run meetings are. I spent some time in the military, and one of the best ski

Meetings aren't the problem, in my opinion. People who don't know how to properly run meetings are. I spent some time in the military, and one of the best skills that experience ever taught me was how to properly prepare for and run a meeting. Some people prepare too much for meetings with useless props/aids that aren't required, some people allow the attendees of the meeting to derail the subject uselessly, and so on and so on. I'm a consultant in a large game company right now, and there are too many "emails instead of meetings" types. It's amazing how a quick 10 minute discussion at someone's desk can replace a solid day of useless and confusing email "discussions". Meetings and email threads are simply tools to get the job done, and as with everything, it's a matter of picking the right tool for the job at hand.