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“It is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about time as their most valuable resource.” —
Reid Hastie, Professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business

Yes! Yes! Oh. My. God. Yes! I have always had a well developed mis-trust of meetings. I often find myself sitting in a meeting calculating the pure labor cost. Nevermind the cost of lost ideas and opportunities because your sitting in a hot room listening someone READ THEIR POWERPOINT TO YOU! Just the pure labor cost – billable cost per hour of everyone in the room. It gets me in trouble a lot.