> Poorly run meetings consume too much time without accomplishing anything. Agreed that more often than not this is the case - however I am seeing a clear awar

> Poorly run meetings consume too much time without accomplishing anything. Agreed that more often than not this is the case - however I am seeing a clear awareness now a days at my workplace - people are at least a bit conflicted about wasting time. I personally always try to politely steer the meeting to get something meaningful agreed to or done - even if I am not the organizer. My experience is that depending on how cleverly I am able to converse it either goes well or people don't respond and I have to retry. Things like saying "Hmm. So looks like at this point without having person X in the room and without having data Y we can't really sort this out in <em> this </em> meeting." - it works well if you insert them infrequently with right tone and timing.