Valuable Meetings

Meetings. How many of them can be changed, disregarded, and not even attended? Can one spend their time on more valuable work?

Automatically as I was writing this my only focus was on work type meetings, as those seem to be the least edifying and the most wasteful. Meetings can be beneficial:

• Casual meetings to build relationships
• Informational meetings to build up knowledge
• Crisis meetings to solve urgent and hard problems
• Regular meetings that have outcomes that are action oriented
• Impromptu meetings that spark ideas

So not all meetings are monsters that feed on time and energy. Just ones that are poorly run.