I attended a meeting for my daughter's ballroom activity this year at school.

Sep 17, 2020
8:35:15am

Cougarrr May the force be with you.

She literally read the flyer that she had already emailed. And then repeated those things in different ways. It was the most pointless meeting I'd ever been to.

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So I just turned 50 and, notwithstanding the fact that I've now lived for

Doctor Rosenrosen

9/17/20 8:22am

It makes them feel important

wabluecoug

9/17/20 8:23am

Only those that crave power look forward to meetings

TarCoug

9/17/20 8:26am

True leaders understand that aligning their team and communicating their message

brazilcoug

9/17/20 8:29am

Herd mentality.

Stalwartbob

9/17/20 8:33am

If that’s what you want to call it. You could argue any organization/message is

brazilcoug

9/17/20 8:36am

Fair critique. Been reading The Story Brand recently and clarity and consistency

TarCoug

9/17/20 8:45am

Thanks, Mitch Matthews.

LaVellIfIKnow

9/17/20 9:49am

It's worse than that. I have been at the same company for 14 years. I swear I've

Agnostic-alumni

9/17/20 8:28am

I too have been at the same company for 14 years, and yes I agree that a lot of

brazilcoug

9/17/20 8:31am

It's not the idea of communicating good ideas it's the meeting itself

Agnostic-alumni

9/17/20 8:44am

RE: It's not the idea of communicating good ideas it's the meeting itself

5150man

9/17/20 9:15am

Oh man. Managing a group of physicians sounds like pure heck.

brazilcoug

9/17/20 9:19am

I run my own company. So I may not get extra vacation days but when I call a

Bruton Guster

9/17/20 9:17am

No doubt. And honestly no one tells me when to run meetings with my team. I set

brazilcoug

9/17/20 9:18am

Not just work. Also church, service groups, etc.

Florwood

9/17/20 8:30am

One of my sayings is that "organizations are like

Doctor Rosenrosen

9/17/20 8:34am

Never attended a priesthood leadership meeting where people wanted to be there.

MormonThug

9/17/20 8:35am

There was a time I really liked them.

Florwood

9/17/20 10:16am

I’ll never forget being in an all day missionary training about how shorter

Pepe

9/17/20 8:46am

Gets them a reason to procrastinate work they should be doing. Human nature.

MormonThug

9/17/20 8:33am

I felt the same for many years. Then one day the light turned on. Meetings are

DirtyWater

9/17/20 8:33am

I attended a meeting for my daughter's ballroom activity this year at school.

Cougarrr

9/17/20 8:35am

I hate meetings as well but I hate days long email chains that could be

Pepe

9/17/20 8:48am

Best manager I ever had...stand up meetings only, no longer than 45 minutes.

Nat Gas Man

9/17/20 8:53am

What’s a stand up meeting? Does everyone literally stand on their feet?

stenso

9/17/20 10:21am

yep

Nat Gas Man

9/17/20 10:23am

I wish more people would adopt this...even in the Church. One silver lining of

m0resn0w

9/17/20 12:41pm

When I was on the HC, it used to drive me crazy the guys who would just talk to

BR549

9/17/20 8:55am

two critical aspects of a quality meeting...

ordinary tri guy

9/17/20 9:23am

I liked this podcast on How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

UCLACoug

9/17/20 9:27am

Meetings

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