> I think sitting in pointless meetings and having some task on the back burner for ages as you go through the meetings is not pleasant What seems pointless to

> I think sitting in pointless meetings and having some task on the back burner for ages as you go through the meetings is not pleasant What seems pointless to you is not pointless to the team you manage. What's important to you is often not seen that way by your team either. This is a really straightforward dysfunction to fix and it's always the manager's responsibility to do it. > have some more senior person say a few words to skip the ego soothing The best managers don't have this attitude. You're absolutely right that someone in charge of the project needs to moderate the meetings, but I'm curious if the "few words" are really constructive suggestions based on experience that speed up decision making, or just dumb whip cracking. If it's the latter, I wouldn't keep you on. If the team just needed to be reminded of deadlines, we would replace all managers with a clock on the wall.