> These people are in fantasy world. NONE OF YOU have worked on anything high stakes, tech has always been non critical (mostly) While tech is my current caree

> These people are in fantasy world. NONE OF YOU have worked on anything high stakes, tech has always been non critical (mostly) While tech is my current career, it's not my first. 18 years as a (UK) Civil Servant has given me a a different perspective on meeting dynamics which still proves useful in my current work. One useful learning for me was around good meeting preparation - especially for critical meetings which carry a good chance of people agreeing to important (to me) decisions. I like to work out what I want to get out of the meeting, and what other people want (including: no agreement), risks around my desired outcome, impacts on the work (and feelings!) of others, things I can do before the meeting to help people get in the right frame of mind to make the decision I want, etc. If I can get people to sign off and move on to their next meeting within 15mins of the meeting starting - that's the ideal outcome. Of course, YMMV!