Subj : Re: Meetings (was: Re: Mo To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Thu Jan 02 2020 13:40:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 12-25-19 05:41 <=- > JM> Unless it is something of great importance most meetings (of any > JM> kind) shouldn't be more than 90 minutes. > That's generally true... JM> I have been a member over the years of all sorts of groups and JM> organisations and several of them after 90 minutes the meetings were JM> just starting... I've been fortunate enough not to have had to be in meetings quite that disorganized... generally they'd be properly underway within 10 minutes or so... JM> Then there were groups where the same things were talked to death, JM> then dug up and talked about some more, but nothing was ever really JM> done. And the leaders wondered why few people attended. Probably the attendees were the usual diggers.... One committee I've been a part of for many years, there's one person on the committee that keeps trying to reinvent the wheel... we've mostly learned to just let him babble and then ignore and go on to more productive things... JM> Come to think of it, that would replace various types of JM> torture around the world. Someone they would be forced to attend JM> endless meetings. Eventually they would crack and tell everything JM> they know in exchange for no more meetings... :) Especially if those were the sort of meetings you've had to endure... > ... Just because it doesn't do what you planned doesn't mean it's useless. JM> That's what I've told my boss for years. :) You mean, about yourself....? ttyl neb .... I didn't say it was your fault; I said I was blaming you. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .