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Meetings are supposed to be a place where work gets done<\/a>, accountabilities exercised options\u00a0 articulated and examined, decisions made, and outcomes reported. However, often they become just a reason to have another meeting.<\/p>\n Whilst the public sector comes in for some pretty harsh criticism, they are not alone.<\/p>\n Last week I found myself in a meeting called by a prospective client so I felt it sensible to attend and contribute.<\/p>\n No agenda, minutes of the previous meeting were supplied as we walked into the room, no definitive objective, just another bloody meeting.<\/p>\n To amuse myself, I tried to calculate the cost of the thing, thousands, and found\u00a0 myself thinking about the waste, and how to fix it, and only came up with the same stuff I have written about before. Serendipitously, later in the day, my inbox “plinked” with a lovely little cartoon from Hugh MacLeod<\/a> that does his usual great job of nailing the topic\u00a0\u00a0 with a few words and lines, and links.<\/p>\n The infographic<\/a> in one link is terrific, and the\u00a0 meeting clock<\/a> is wonderful, I will use it regularly from here on in when I see wasted resources being directed towards massaging someone’s ego, or “busywork<\/a>” being done by having another bloody meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meetings are supposed to be a place where work gets done, accountabilities exercised options\u00a0 articulated and examined, decisions made, and outcomes reported. However, often they become just a reason to have another meeting. Whilst the public sector comes in for some pretty harsh criticism, they are not alone. Last week I found myself in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57258971,7885,57258965],"tags":[1214,16505,108946,4236,2267523],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fjXq-1hB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategyaudit.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}