Agenda Item 1

Boring Meetings Suck … so Why Do We Have 'Em?

Why do so many meetings have to suck …

So badly?

So consistently?

How many millions upon millions of people are wondering every day: Why am I stuck in this meeting? I have far better things to do than listen to people put in their two cents several times over. And how on earth do I get out of here?

They're also asking—

• Why was I even invited?
• Why is this presenter reading PowerPoint slides? Couldn't this person have just mailed the presentation to everyone and skipped the meeting?
• Why is this meeting going a full hour even though we finished the agenda in 35 minutes?
• Why is this conference call being constantly interrupted with the question, “Who just joined?”
• Why is this meeting wasting thousands of dollars of human capital by endlessly talking about problems but never solving them?