I sent this out to my colleagues two years ago and they took it as an insult. The real problem is that meetings are an inefficient form of communication. I onc

I sent this out to my colleagues two years ago and they took it as an insult. The real problem is that meetings are an inefficient form of communication. I once had to sit through a weekly around the room status meeting where everyone tried to shine in front of the boss and brag about what they had been doing- for two hours! That's 5% of my supposed 40 hours per week being subjected to others bloviating about their accomplishments. I used to beg for timeboxing on certain people, but it was never enforced. I started dialing into the meeting on my cellphone from my desk so I could at least work. We even tried to make the meeting into a daily update blog or something, but the idiot manager liked to gather all of his subjects into the room and hold court once a week. I like the board meetings I run. We talk about an issue for a designated period of time, and then we vote on it. Closed. Meetings without a clearly defined decision process tend not to make any decisions.