One thing I never understood is why some groups have so many meetings. We have people in meetings all day everyday. Then they are on all night either in (you guessed it) meetings or I assume doing actual work. What is the obsession with having so many meetings? I don’t see it as a positive use of people’s time but as a waste of people’s time. It appears to me that we do a lot of talking but not a lot of doing. We don’t have the luxury to do this anymore. We need to be smarter about how teams spend their time.
Why is it this way? What can we do to change it? Is there some technology we can use that will restrict the number of meetings someone can attend in a day forcing people to really consider whether a meeting is required? There are most likely other solutions than sitting in a meeting to get the information you need.