Yikes. Agendas are good, and the person running the meeting should try to stick with the agenda. Sometimes it's hard though, if senior people within the meeti

Yikes. Agendas are good, and the person running the meeting should try to stick with the agenda. Sometimes it's hard though, if senior people within the meeting start steering it off course and the person running the meeting is a lower level and doesn't feel they have the right to steer the conversation back. I don't know how I'd fix it, other than just subtly always steering the conversation back. Or you could just jokingly say "we're off topic! Stick to X dammit!" Depends on the culture, probably wouldn't fly at a lot of places. Imo, it's really up to the person running the meeting to keep it on track.