Guest post by Al Pittampalli Al is the Author of Read This Before Our Next Meeting. As a former IT advisor at Ernst & Young LLP, he worked on-site at Fortune 1000 companies all across the country. I sat in a lot of their meetings. He is STILL recovering.
- What if there are no important decisions to be resolved or problems to be addressed this week? Just like CNN is forced to fill their 24 hour programming with nonsense on slow news days, standing meeting agendas notoriously attract invented or trivial issues.
- A large portion of standing meetings turn informational. After all, writing a cogent and well thought out memo is difficult. It’s more convenient (at least for the leader) to wait until the next meeting and tell everyone live, “while we’re all here…”
- When an important decision does arise in between meetings, people are conditioned to put it off until the next meeting. Even when time is of the essence, the meeting calendar has a way of dictating speed instead of the nature of the decision itself.
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